Australian Government Partnerships @MistralAI. FPV quadcopter hobbyist. Occasional audiophile, music producer, and photographer. Opinions are my own.
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Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
🤖 Made with AI
Convention over configuration was designed for human developers.
It works even better when the developer isn't human.
Agents that hit ambiguous choices have 3 options: ask, guess, or stop. None are good. Opinionated platforms eliminate the trilemma entirely.
h/t @snowmaker for the API onboarding observation
@vercel @Cloudflare
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“We had overestimated the value of “human relationships”. Turns out that a lot of what people called relationships was simply friction with a friendly face.” 💀
I gave my AI agent one instruction: "we need observability across the homelab." No tool recommendations. No architecture. Just the problem.
ALT A robot stands in a dimly lit server room, studying floating monitoring dashboards showing CPU and memory metrics
The barriers between intention and execution are falling fast. The risk of getting it wrong is real — but so is the risk of standing still while the world around you accelerates.
I wrote about the experience, the trust gradient, and what governance looks like when agents ship at the speed of thinking.
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this fr? “...Clawdbot ran an open-source contribution sprint — submitting 15 substantial bug-fix PRs across Hugging Face Transformers, Storybook, and Supabase. Not documentation typos. Real code fixes: a CLI crash when…” — Jonathan Fulton medium.com/jonathans-musings…
Chat app feature request: press and hold a message to have an AI chatbot provide an answer or qualification
M365 compromise: Interested in learning how phishing-as-a-service criminal enterprise RaccoonO365 operates and how Cloudflare and Microsoft are disrupting its operation?
In partnership with Microsoft and law enforcement, we've disrupted RaccoonO365 — a sophisticated Phishing-as-a-Service enterprise targeting Microsoft credentials. Our new report outlines the coordinated action and technical details.
Learn more: cloudflare.com/threat-intell…
There should be an option to schedule email and Slack messages to be sent when the recipient's business day starts
Hi-Fi companies: Give us network streamers that display to TV, please
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Incredible optical illusion demonstrates that when objects are removed from peripheral vision, the brain perceives a slower pace of motion
📹 Akiyoshi Kitaoka
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If you want to change the world,
Start at home.
8 ways parents can shape kids who shape the world:
Replying to a twitter thread solely to interact with a third party service (eg. a thread reader) is obnoxious behaviour (at least as long as twitter doesn’t filter out these replies). Is there a reason that twitter allows this pollution?
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Struggling to connect on your remote team?
We’ve built a 68 person remote team that’s driving $30 million in annual revenue.
Here are 10 ideas for building great culture in a distributed team: 💻🌐
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A🧵: When we recently inherited by husband’s late grandfather Joe’s war records, I spent an evening poring over what I thought was Joe’s flight log. But then I came to a single entry following an operation over Italy: ‘missing’. It turns out 1/
