Author HubMaximilian Schreiner

Max is the managing editor of THE DECODER, bringing his background in philosophy to explore questions of consciousness and whether machines truly think or just pretend to.

AI and society

Feb 19, 2025Feb 19, 2025

"Unlimited genius" for all: Altman's naive dream of AI equality

AI and society

Feb 6, 2025Feb 6, 2025

Study warns: creeping AI development could lead to our 'gradual disempowerment'

AI in practice

Jan 22, 2025Jan 22, 2025

Anthropic CEO expects major AI breakthrough, plans to launch "virtual collaborators"

AI research

Dec 10, 2023Dec 10, 2023

StripedHyena: A new architecture for next-generation generative AI?

AI research

Dec 9, 2023Dec 9, 2023

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French startup Mistral AI has released its new language model Mixtral 8x7B via a torrent link. Mixtral is a mixture-of-experts model, following an architecture that OpenAI is rumored to be using for GPT-4, but on a much larger scale.

There are no benchmarks, blog posts, or articles about the model yet, but Mistral-7B — the first version of Mistral AI — generally performed very well and was quickly adopted by the open-source community. Mistral is thought to have used the MegaBlocks MoE library for training. The Paris-based company was recently valued at nearly $2 billion.

AI research

Dec 8, 2023Dec 8, 2023

VideoRF paves the way for real-time 3D streaming on smartphones and VR headsets

AI research

Dec 8, 2023Dec 8, 2023

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With Generative Power of Tens, researchers demonstrate a method enabling "extreme semantic zooms" from wide-angle views to macro shots. Unlike traditional super-resolution methods, the team from the University of Washington, Google Research, and UC Berkeley uses text prompts for each scale, enabling deeper zoom levels. Compared to traditional outpainting techniques, the approach produces a consistent zoom in which the content of the coarser and finer zoom levels are consistent.