This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European data centers, and Reflection AI’s Apache-licensed Beam comes from a team of DeepMind veterans, with both aiming at the Chinese labs that have dominated open AI.
Also in this episode: Ghost’s $3,499 personal AI computer and Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark, Meta’s Muse building profiles of everyone in your life, XREAL’s Aura pricing, Utah letting AI prescribe acne medication, OpenAI’s textGrain watermarks and ChatGPT image ads, and Nano Banana 2.1. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Cold open and episode preview
00:02:57 - Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk and open-weight AIRelated: Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals | TechCrunch · Why Mistral's 1T model is a hedge against lock-in | The Deep View · Mistral: "There is no doom scenario" · Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
00:16:37 - Reflection AI releases Beam
00:22:26 - Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily
00:23:39 - Ghost Core: a $3,499 personal AI computer
00:30:00 - Ramageddon, Qualcomm and the cost of local AI
00:31:40 - Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark
00:33:32 - Who needs an AI computer? Libraries and small businesses
00:38:22 - AI for democracy and public benefits
00:41:40 - Trying Meta Muse as a proactive assistant
00:43:22 - Muse profiles your friends and family
00:50:44 - Build your own Muse Gadgets
00:51:35 - XREAL Aura pricing and the market for XR glassesRelated: I Put on Meta and Xreal’s XR Glasses. Face Computers Are Finally Getting Good
00:57:24 - Nolla Health: AI prescriptions for acne in Utah
01:00:58 - Google AI Edge Foresight: on-device notes
01:02:20 - OpenAI TextGrain text watermarks
01:03:05 - Visual ads in ChatGPT and the attention economy
01:05:21 - Google’s Nano Banana 2.1
01:06:26 - SpaceXAI becomes SpaceXSI
01:07:09 - Wrap-up: Jeff Jarvis and PodtuneupRelated: Podtuneup
Also discussed: Jeff: With AI, Sharing Is Caring
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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