Mistral 3: The New Gold Standard for Open Multimodal AI
The open-source AI landscape just shifted. Mistral AI has officially launched Mistral 3, a comprehensive family of multimodal models that bridge the gap between tiny edge devices and massive enterprise data centers. Released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, Mistral 3 isn’t just a model update; it’s a statement that frontier-level intelligence—including vision—belongs in the…
How OpenAI Scales to 800 Million Weekly Active Users: Insights from Sherwin Wu on Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
In a recent episode of the a16z Podcast, venture capitalist Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to dive deep into how OpenAI is building and scaling its infrastructure to support massive user growth—now reaching 800 million weekly active users on ChatGPT. The conversation explores OpenAI’s evolving developer…
5 Beginner-Friendly Resources to Finally Understand AI Agents
The world of AI agents can feel like a maze at first—so many terms, frameworks, and buzzwords. But after digging deep, I found five beginner-friendly resources that make it impossible not to understand what AI agents are and how to build them. Whether you’re just starting out or trying to make sense of all the…