Ecosia, a Berlin-based search engine used by German government agencies and the UK's NHS, is abandoning its partnership with French AI company Mistral due to quality concerns, instead adopting open-source AI models including those from China. CEO Christian Kroll cited Mistral's models as being a year behind competitors.
Mistral unveiled Le Chonk, a trillion-parameter open-weight AI model emphasizing digital sovereignty and European deployment. The model targets enterprises seeking control over AI infrastructure, competing on cost and independence from proprietary US platforms while claiming superiority in coding, cybersecurity, and visual analysis.
Weight-loss drugs from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk show signs of slowing biological aging according to molecular aging clocks. Energy Dome, an MIT Technology Review Climate Tech Company to Watch, uses compressed carbon dioxide batteries to store renewable energy without requiring specific geology. OpenAI released 377 new math findings from an unreleased model, while Mistral unveiled its large open-weight model and Finland halted Google's record data center project over environmental concerns.