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Mistral is named after a cold wind in southern France. Its new model, Le Chonk, has 1 trillion parameters.
In today's issue, HubSpot is helping your team start Monday caught up, with a CRM that updates itself.
Meanwhile, Google bought 3.6 GW of power, Schneider is paying $22.6B for design software, and Utah is letting an AI write prescriptions. A London court is also asking if a 30% app fee was fair.
The models are hungry. Everyone is selling lunch.
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Finally, a Monday that doesn’t feel like one.
Imagine a Saturday where you're not catching up on the CRM you didn't touch all week.
HubSpot's new self-updating CRM doesn't wait for you to log back in. Friday's calls are already logged. The deal that needs a nudge Monday morning is already flagged. The automation you set up once keeps running without you thinking about it. None of it needed you over the weekend.
Customers are already seeing it pay off: 45% more deals closed. Finally, you start Monday caught up, not behind.
The Kit
Manus Video Editor puts each shot, caption, voiceover and music track of an AI video on its own timeline. You can edit by hand or by chat. It is for marketers who want control over an AI first draft.
Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's new image model, and Google says it improves mask-based editing and subject consistency. The API costs $0.0336 per 1K image. Use it to change one part of a photo.
Deep Current
Mistral ships a 1T open model
Mistral launched Mistral Large 4, a model with 1 trillion parameters. Only 49B of them wake up for each request, so it is lighter than it looks. The open weights land at the end of October.
It scored 82% on a test of reproducing software bugs and 93% on Cybench, a security test. The API costs $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens.
Mistral trained it on about 3,800 Nvidia GPUs in its own European data centers. A €3B funding round came right before it. Read more
Google signs 3.6 GW
Google signed with Constellation Energy for 3.6 GW of power. 890 MW comes from nuclear plants on a 20-year deal. The other 2.7 GW comes from the PJM grid on a 15-year deal.
Constellation will spend $4.3B to squeeze more power from 11 nuclear units. That is called an uprate, and it means a reactor that already runs gives a bit more.
PJM expects up to 30 GW of new peak demand by 2030, mostly from AI data centers. Google now has a spot in that line. Read more
Schneider buys PTC
Schneider Electric agreed to buy PTC, a Boston maker of product design software, for $22.6B in cash. It is the biggest deal in the French company's history.
Schneider's own stock fell almost 10%. PTC stock rose 34% before the US market opened. Read more
In Radar
Google fights a £1B UK suit. A London tribunal is hearing a class action for about 20 million UK users. They say Google charged Play Store fees of up to 30%, and Google says its fees are among the lowest around. Read more
Utah widens its health AI sandbox. The state can pause its own rules, even those on practicing medicine, for AI products it watches. Nolla Health goes first with an AI that treats acne and writes prescriptions, and a clinician checks each one. Read more
Vitalize raises $31M. The Series A, led by Oak HC/FT, funds AI that plans hospital staffing. St. Luke's Health cut its premium labor spending by 54% in 12 weeks. Read more
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