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An agenda to maximise AI’s advantages and minimise harms, by David Patterson

This was the topic of a spirited dialog I had in February 2024 with Andy Konwinski, a former scholar of mine and the co-founder of two AI-related startups, Databricks and Perplexity. Andy shared his disbelief {that a} buddy’s son had dropped out of his computer-science programme. This vibrant scholar believed AI would quickly make programmers …

Mistral Small 3 vs Qwen vs DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: Capabilities, pace, use instances and extra in contrast

The panorama of generative AI is evolving quickly, with firms racing to construct extra environment friendly, succesful, and accessible fashions. Among the many newest entrants, Mistral Small 3, Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max, and DeepSeek R1 are vying for dominance alongside OpenAI’s established ChatGPT. Every mannequin presents a novel strategy to AI and used instances. Mistral Small 3 …