Hello, Starters!

Developers play a crucial role in the AI revolution; without them, most of the innovations we witness daily wouldn't exist! It is only fair that AI companies are seeking ways to enhance the coding process for them with this technology.

Here’s what you’ll find today:

• Mistral AI introduces its first coding model

• OpenAI reaches deals with Vox Media and The Atlantic

• Google announces AI expansion in Malaysia

• PwC now offers ChatGPT Enterprise

• Free users can access ChatGPT’s latest features

• And more.

🧑‍💻 Mistral AI introduces its first coding model (5 min)

As part of its mission to democratise access to AI and provide developers with new tools for code creation, Mistral AI has announced Codestral, its first code model. Codestral boasts a context window of 32,000 tokens and 22B parameters. Trained on a dataset of over 80 programming languages, it aims to assist developers in writing and interacting with code, minimising errors and reducing time spent coding.

Codestral is an open-weight model licensed under Mistral's new AI Non-Production License, making it suitable for research and testing.

🤝 OpenAI reaches deals with Vox Media and The Atlantic (1 min)

OpenAI has disclosed another set of deals. Vox Media and The Atlantic have agreed to provide the company with access to their content to train AI models. In return, they will be credited as sources if ChatGPT happens to cite content from them as publishers. Also, both companies will leverage OpenAI's technology to enhance user experiences.

Licensing deals are currently very important to OpenAI, primarily for keeping ChatGPT up-to-date, and also for its potential plans to release a search engine.

🇲🇾 Google announces AI expansion in Malaysia (1 min)

The demand for AI is prompting Google to further expand its efforts in Southeast Asia. The company has announced plans to invest $2 billion in Malaysia to build a data center and cloud region. This move has the potential to increase the country's GDP and support 26,500 jobs.

Google is not the only company making strategic moves globally. Microsoft has also taken similar steps as the need for more cloud computing services and data centers continues to grow rapidly alongside the development of AI technologies.

💼Enterprises looking to integrate ChatGPT into their processes may have a new pathway: the multinational professional service consultancy PwC offers the option to purchase the ChatGPT Enterprise licence, previously available only directly from OpenAI. The two companies have partnered to expand the availability of AI technology for businesses.

💻As announced in May, free ChatGPT users can now access features that were initially available only through a paid subscription, such as custom GPTs, chart creation, data analysis, and file uploads. However, while they can use custom GPTs, they won't be able to create their own.

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Thank you for reading!