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Top stories today: - Mistral releases Codestral Mamba 7B, Mathstral 7B
- SpaceX, X moving headquarters from CA to TX
- Andreessen, Horowitz endorse Trump, announce donations
- ASML's sales -10% YoY to €6.2B in Q2
- Streaming reaches record 40.3% of TV time, YouTube, Netflix lead
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1. Mistral releases Codestral Mamba 7B, Mathstral 7B, claimed to be best small open models for coding, STEM |
Codestral Mamba 7B uses the Mamba architecture, rather than Transformers, and has a context length of 256K: |
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Mathstral does particularly well on the MATH benchmark, but its broader MMLU is only 63% (vs. 68% for Microsoft's Phi-3 Mini 4B): |
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2. SpaceX, X moving headquarters from CA to TX |
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3. Andreessen, Horowitz endorse Trump, announce donations |
![YouTube video by a16z](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n_sNclEgQZQ/maxresdefault.jpg) | The Little Tech Agenda: Biden vs. Trump |
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With "Little Tech" arguments: they were historically bipartisan, but argue that the Biden administration has been particularly against M&A, startups, and crypto.
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5. ASML's sales -10% YoY to €6.2B in Q2, net bookings +24% to €5.6B |
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6. Latam startup funding +17% YoY to $0.8B in Q2, still significantly below 2021 levels |
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7. Streaming reaches record 40.3% of TV time, with YouTube, Netflix leading |
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8. Interesting videos, posts, and memes |
![YouTube video by Turpentine VC](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D7VuYJBsgcg/maxresdefault.jpg) | Index Ventures' Mike Volpi on AI, Open Source, and Evolution of VC |
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