Welcome to Friday’s Newsletter

In today’s scoop 🍨 

• Mistral’s OCR API Drops

• Larry Page is Back—with Dynatomics!

• AI Art Ignites Auction Drama

• 3 Trending AI Tools

🚀 Mistral’s OCR API Drops

Ever stared at a messy PDF full of tables, handwritten notes, or math equations, wishing it would just magically sort itself out? French AI startup Mistral feels your pain—and just dropped an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) API claiming global domination in document deciphering. 🌎

Why should you care? Simple: about 90% of business information lives in chaotic, unstructured documents. Mistral OCR isn't just another text-extracting tool; it turns chaos into neatly organized, AI-friendly data in a snap.

Here’s what makes it stand out:

• 🚀 Speed Demon: Processes up to 2,000 pages per minute—perfect for finance, research, or legal work.

• 🌐 Multilingual Prodigy: Handles thousands of languages, even tricky ones like Hindi and Arabic.

• 📚 Smarty Pants: Nails complex math equations and intricate formatting better than giants like Google Document AI, Azure OCR, and even GPT-4o.

• 🔒 Privacy First: Offers on-premises deployment, keeping sensitive data safely behind your own firewall.

This isn't your grandparents’ OCR (literally—it started in the 1950s!). Mistral OCR represents the next evolution, integrating seamlessly with large language models so you can ask your PDFs questions, get instant summaries, or compare multiple docs without losing context.

The takeaway? Say goodbye to PDF dread—Mistral OCR just made data digitization fast, painless, and maybe even enjoyable. 📑

💡 Larry Page is Back—with Dynatomics!

Looks like retirement didn't suit Larry Page. The Google co-founder is diving back into AI with his newest venture, Dynatomics. But don't expect another chatbot—Page has bigger plans: revolutionizing the way products get made.

Dynatomics is all about AI-driven manufacturing, crafting hyper-optimized designs that factories can whip up faster than you can say "Hey Google." At the helm is Chris Anderson, formerly of Page-backed electric airplane startup Kittyhawk, hinting at some seriously ambitious tech.

Here's why Dynatomics matters:

• 🤖 Optimized Designs: AI-generated products with top-tier efficiency and durability.

• 🛠️ Streamlined Manufacturing: Cutting the fat from factory processes across industries.

• 💸 Big Money Backing: Page's $156 billion fortune means serious muscle behind innovation.

Page isn't alone—startups like Orbital Materials and PhysicsX are also pushing AI boundaries. But with Page’s track record, Dynatomics might just reshape how everything from your smartphone to your car gets built.

🎨 AI Art Ignites Auction Drama

Christie’s latest auction was more dramatic than your group chat debating pineapple on pizza—except this time, the controversy involved AI-generated masterpieces.

Dubbed "Augmented Intelligence," Christie’s latest auction surpassed expectations, raking in a cool $728,000—comfortably beating its $600k target. The highlight? Refik Anadol’s trippy, space-themed Machine Hallucinations – ISS Dreams – A, which alone fetched a staggering $277,200.

But not everyone was popping champagne. Over 6,000 artists signed an open letter accusing Christie's of enabling AI models that allegedly "steal" creativity without consent. Critics slammed the auction house for being complicit in the exploitation of artists whose works train these AI models.

📊Auction by the Numbers 

• 82% sell-through rate.

• Nearly 40% of bidders were Christie’s first-timers.

• Gen Z & Millennials dominated, making up nearly half of the bidders.

Christie’s responded by framing AI as just another creative tool—sparking innovation rather than stealing art.

Love it or hate it, AI art is cashing some very human-sized checks.

🔧3 Trending AI Tools

• 🤖 Beyond Presence – Quickly build interactive video chat agents using realistic avatars to automate HR, sales, and support calls at scale, giving conversations a human feel without delays.

• 🌐 Perigon – Uses AI to analyze global information in real-time, helping businesses quickly track trends, monitor media sentiment, and make smarter, faster decisions.

• 💻 Fynix– A smart coding assistant that learns your personal coding style, letting you effortlessly write, debug, and refine code with simple natural language commands right in your IDE.

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Enjoy the weekend, folks—you've earned it! See you bright and early on Monday. ✌️