OpenAI Launches Global Push for "Democratic AI" 🌍

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OpenAI plans to sell ‘democratic AI’ to the world, aiming to enhance its soft global power and help the U.S. counter China’s growing influence.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• OpenAI Plans to Team Up with Governments to Boost AI Infrastructure

• Mistral AI Launches Medium 3, Promising Low Cost and High Performance

• AI Tutorial: How to use Google’s free AI tools for language learning

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Plans to Team Up with Governments to Boost AI Infrastructure

OpenAI has announced a new initiative called "OpenAI for Countries," aiming to work hand-in-hand with governments worldwide to build AI infrastructure and promote AI that “protects and incorporates long-standing democratic principles” rather than “authoritarian versions of AI.”

Details:

• The new effort aims to partner with countries or regions to build and operate data centers that would offer localized versions of OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, tailored to meet citizens’ needs, with a focus on healthcare and education.

• The company described it as “AI of, by, and for the needs of each particular country.”

• OpenAI plans to support 10 international projects to start, with funding coming from both the organization and the governments of participating countries, though the locations have not been revealed yet.

• Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, stated that the program was created after the AI Action Summit in Paris, where several countries showed interest in their own "Stargate"-style project.

OpenAI expects these partnerships to support continued U.S. leadership in AI and help create a “global, growing network effect for democratic AI,” which essentially means convincing other countries to use Western AI models—particularly OpenAI’s—over Chinese competitors.

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MISTRAL AI

Mistral AI Launches Medium 3, Promising Low Cost and High Performance

French AI startup Mistral has introduced its latest model, Mistral Medium 3, which aims to deliver top-tier performance at a fraction of the cost of its competitors.

Details:

• The company claims Mistral Medium 3 performs “at or above” 90% of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 model on “benchmarks across the board,” at a much lower cost, while also outperforming recent open models like Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick and Cohere’s Command A.

• It is optimized for coding, STEM tasks, and multimodal understanding, and is available via API at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens.

• Alongside the model, Mistral introduced Le Chat Enterprise, a corporate-focused chatbot service that integrates with tools like Gmail, Google Drive, and SharePoint, offering businesses a secure and customizable AI assistant with features like agent building, document libraries, hybrid deployments, and more.

While not on par with the top proprietary models, the new model stands out as a cost-effective, high-performing alternative in the competitive AI landscape. The company also hints at working on something “large” in the coming weeks.

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AI Tutorial

How to use Google’s free AI tools for language learning

Google has launched 3 free tools in Google Labs to help boost your language learning.

Here’s how to get started:

1. Go to the Little Language Lessons page in Google Labs and sign in with your Google account

2. Choose one of the tools below:

• Tiny Lesson

Pick a language and a situation — like ordering food or introducing yourself. Gemini will create a personalized list of words, phrases, and tips for you to hear and practice.

• Slang Hang

Gemini shows a casual conversation between two native speakers. You can read, listen, and translate their chat. The conversation keeps going as long as you want.

• Word Cam (Best on your phone)

Point your camera at anything around you. Gemini will spot the objects, translate the words, and let you hear how they're pronounced.

AI Tools to check out

⏲ MeetMinutes: The 1st Agentic AI based meeting management tool using Bill Gates’ Note-Taking method to capture key points, questions, and tasks.

💡 Recap: Unlock insights with AI-driven, multi-perspective questions that transform diverse materials into engaging visuals.

🌐 Browser Use: Let AI control your browser. Say what you need, and browser-use gets it done.

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💬 Remention: Place your product in billions of online discussions with AI.

AI Findings/Resources

👀 Can AI care for your loved ones?

🔍 Easy way to extract ChatGPT's memory of you and metadata

❗ UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe

💡 Will AI really be the demise of Google search?

The latest in AI and Tech

LinkedIn has a new AI tool that will let you find your ideal job

LinkedIn has introduced a new generative AI-powered job search tool that allows users to find job listings by describing their ideal roles in natural language.

This feature enables users to bypass traditional search filters like location, industry, and job title by inputting conversational queries such as “entry-level brand manager roles in fashion” or “jobs for analysts who love sustainability challenges.”

Anthropic launches web search API for Claude AI

Anthropic has introduced a new API that enables its Claude AI models to perform real-time web searches, allowing developers to build applications that provide up-to-date information.

The API is compatible with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku models, and is priced at $10 per 1,000 searches.

Hugging Face launches "Open Computer Agent"

Hugging Face has introduced a free, cloud-hosted AI agent called Open Computer Agent. Similar to OpenAI's Operator, users can prompt the agent to perform various computer-based tasks, and the agent will autonomously open the necessary programs and execute the required steps.

Reddit is adding new checks to stop AI bots

Reddit is implementing stricter user verification measures to combat the growing issue of AI-generated bots impersonating humans on its platform.

This decision follows a controversial experiment where researchers deployed over 1,700 AI bots on the "Change My View" subreddit, adopting various personas to manipulate discussions.

Google launches a Gemini app for iPad

Google has announced a dedicated iPadOS version of the Gemini app, which was previously only available on iPad in compatibility mode.

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