Welcome to the Connected Church News by Natchi Lazarus.
This news item is part of the top 5 news (Week 3, Sep 2024) specially curated for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.
French AI company Mistral has announced the release of Pixtral 12B, a multimodal model capable of image-based processing. This model can caption and analyze images and is integrated with the text model NEMO 12B. With its availability on GitHub and Hugging Face, Pixtral 12B offers potential applications for churches and ministries seeking advanced image-processing capabilities.
Here is the full list of the news items from Week 3, Sep 2024 with source links from OpenAI, ChatGPT, Mistral, Apple Intelligence, Meta.
🗞️ News 1: Meta Leads Industry Coalition to Prevent Harmful Content
Source: Meta
🗞️ News 2: OpenAI’s New o1 Model with Advanced Reasoning Capability
Source: OpenAI
🗞️ News 3: YouTube Launches International Handles & Add Yours Sticker
🗞️ News 4: Mistral AI Releases its First Multimodal Model – Pixtral 12B
Source: TechCrunch
🗞️ News 5: Apple Keynote Sets the Stage for ‘Apple Intelligence’ Rollout
Source: Apple
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