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ASML a crucial supplier of advanced chipmaking equipment, is set to become the top shareholder of French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI in a move to strengthen European tech sovereignty, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The Dutch ASML is committing 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) for Mistral’s 1.7 billion euro (~$2 billion) fundraise and is expected to get a board seat at Mistral, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss private negotiations.

The round will make Mistral the most valuable AI company in Europe with a 10-billion-euro ($11.7 billion) pre-money valuation in its latest Series C funding round, the people said.

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

It says that certificate on the website has expired, and returns an error. Apparently they're aware and working on the fix - https://floss.social/@fdroidorg/115122499080903353

Today, we introduce Devstral Medium, as well as an upgrade to Devstral Small. These models are released under the collaboration between Mistral AI and All Hands AI 🙌, with a strong emphasis on generalization to different prompts and agentic scaffolds.

The new Devstral Small 1.1 is released under the Apache 2.0 license, and is state-of-the-art amongst open models for code agents. Devstral Medium is available through our API, and sets a new point on the cost/performance pareto frontier, surpassing Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT 4.1 for a quarter of the price.

French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, reports Bloomberg.

We’re excited to share this roadmap — there’s a lot happening with the ActivityPub plugin, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming next.

Today, we’re excited to announce our latest contribution to AI research with Magistral — our first reasoning model. Released in both open and enterprise versions, Magistral is designed to think things through — in ways familiar to us — while bringing expertise across professional domains, transparent reasoning that you can follow and verify, along with deep multilingual flexibility.

We’re releasing the model in two variants: Magistral Small — a 24B parameter open-source version and Magistral Medium — a more powerful, enterprise version.

Bonfire's mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.

Bonfire Social, a new framework for building communities on the open social web, launched on Thursday during the FediForum online conference. While Bonfire Social is a federated app, meaning it’s powered by the same underlying protocol as Mastodon (ActivityPub), it’s designed to be more modular and more customizable. That means communities on Bonfire have more control over how the app functions, which features and defaults are in place, and what their own roadmap and priorities will include.

Bonfire Social, now offered as a 1.0 Release Candidate ahead of the public release, is just one representation of what Bonfire offers. Bonfire calls it a “flavor.”

Each flavor is a preconfigured bundle of Bonfire extensions, features, and defaults, sort of like a starting template. When a community opts to run a particular “flavor,” it gets to govern the app as it sees fit, adding its own extensions and determining its own roadmap for product changes. This puts the social software back under users’ control, instead of being subject to the whims of a platform maker with an ever-changing feature sets and algorithms

Bonfire is part of the Fediverse, so it's nice to see it launch getting coverage

French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own 'vibe coding' client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

Sadly it's only for enterprises, I would use it

I'm asking both mods and other users, with lemm.ee planning to shut down soon, what instance do you all think this community should move to? Except the .ml version the only ones I see are !bluesky@forum.wedistribute.org (NodeBB community) and community for bluesky posts !peoplebluesky@lemmy.world . So probably a new one will need to be created?

Does anyone know where it starts and is it even known in advance? There's a few games I want to buy, and I am unsure if it's worth waiting for the sale or not