Write 1,000 words per second

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Mistral competes before giants, but does not give up. Yesterday He released a new version of his chatbot, Le Chatin addition to offering it on iOS and Android and launching a payment version with advanced AI options. Your platform, available in chat.Mistral.AIearn whole and becomes more versatile, but also has an advantage over its competitors: speed. A chatbot at 1,000 words per second. Mistral responsible do not presume to offer more precise or better answers than their competitors, but yes they have a clear thing: “Le chat reasons, reacts and responds faster than any other chat assistant, to approximately 1,000 words per second.” Flash Answers. It is the name of this characteristic of Le Chat, which according to its creators is enhanced by the highest performance and lower latency models, in addition to “the fastest inference engines on the planet.” The characteristic Flash Answers He has just debuted in a preliminary version for all users, and users can deactivate it if they wish. First test. To demonstrate the speed of Le Chat’s responses we wanted to make a comparison with Chatgpt and Claude, two of the most reputed chatbots at the moment. First we wanted to ask “what is Xataka” to see what these engines responded. Claude’s response is the most extensive, but also full of errors. Le Chat answers, of course very fast and is more concise but also makes an error (Weblogs SL was acquired by Webedia years ago). Chatgpt is the most accurate in the description. Second test. But if what we want is to see how quickly these chatbots generate, it is best to explicitly ask you to write a lot. Here we ask the three to write to us 10 paragraphs about the situation of tariffs in the US. Le Chat proved to be the fastest when generating the text, and also his response was very well structured, it was current and included appointments. Claude’s response although relevant was more focused on previous measures of the government of Joe Biden and did not include appointments. Chatgpt, although it took longer, also offered a very correct and references. Third test. Finally we wanted to test the quality of the translation of Spanish to English to see if that affected speed. We pass a link to one of our Latest articles about Google And we ask the three chatbots to translate it. Here Claude apologized first indicating that he could not access the Internet but we could copy the text. Le Chat was the fastest again, although it was noted that in the translation that speed was somewhat lower. Both this model and Chatgpt made a fairly decent translation, although too faithful to the text. It is true that these models can always be asked to make a freer translation, but its quality in any case is remarkable. Le chat earns from afar in speed (and it’s nothing bad in precision). The Mistral model has demonstrated in these tests to be competitive in the precision and quality of the answers, something that is certainly promising for the aspirations of the French startup. The best of all is that it effectively proves to be much faster in the inference and generation of text (it does not apply in other sections such as the generation of images), something that without a doubt its rivals will strive to match in the future. Image: brains. Why is it so fast chat? The answer is simple: to generate those very quick mystral responses It has allied with the brain companywhich autocalifies as “the fastest inference provider in the world.” They are applying their chips and technology to the Mistral Large 2 123b model which is based on le chat, and thanks to that they achieve up to 1,100 tokens per second in text requests. Also search on the web. Le Chat’s responses are also backed by consultations to media or information agencies as AFP – with whom Mistral has a collaboration agreement – but also for the ability to Web on the web With speed to collect information with which to build your answers. In these answers, the sources from which the information is removed is cited (although always). And even generates images. In the new le chat, options arrive as an advanced document loading option to process them with OCR, a Canvas To use the chat in a conversational/collaborative way and even a code interpreter that allows you to execute code in a sandbox. But it is also possible to use it to generate images thanks to the Flux Ultra generative model of Black Forest Labs, one of the most fashionable lately. These types of options can be enjoyed in the free version, but if we want to use them with more daily consultations, we can pay the subscription of 14.99 euros per month of the Pro version of le chat (the students They only pay 4.99 euros per month). In Xataka | Amazon lost the AI ​​train, but wants to recover it. The new Alexa with ia will arrive this month to try

Meta emails reveal that he downloaded 81.7 TB of books with copyright via Bittorrent to train their AI models

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In the legal process Kadrey against goal Mark Zuckerberg’s company is accused of having used works protected by copyright to train their artificial intelligence models. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Zuckerberg had approved to use pirate booksbut now new and powerful evidence of this looting arrive. Revealed emails. He “Appendix a“The case includes several mail email messages from the finish Do that data collection in October 2022. “Download with torrents from a company’s laptop does not seem a good idea”. In April 2023 Nikolay Bashlykov, one of those responsible for carrying out this data collection, joking including emojis and indicated that the company would have to be careful with the IP from which they downloaded the data. Goal knew the risks. In September of that year Bashlykov already stopped using emoticons and warned that using torrents would imply acting as “seeds” so that others also download them, and “that might not be legally legally.” These debates are proof that Meta knew that this type of activity was illegal, according to the authors who have sued the company. Erasing the footprints. In a Internal message Meta Frank Zhang researcher indicated how the company avoided using its servers by downloading this data set to “avoid” “the risk that anyone can draw the seed” and who downloaded that data. 81.7 TB of data. As they point out In Ars TechnicaThe evidence shows that Meta downloaded at least 81.7 the terabytes of data from various libraries offered by those books protected by copyright. In a New document The legal process indicated that at least 35.7 TB had been downloaded from sites such as Z-Library or Libgen (which It ended up closing last summer). Goal wants to dismiss those charges. Goal has presented a motion to dismiss those accusations indicating that there was no evidence that any book was downloaded by finishing employees through Torrent or that they were later distributed by goal. In Xataka we have contacted the company, and we will update this news if we receive comments on the case. Loot on the Internet fire. These data affect the debatable practices that AI companies are using to train their models. We saw it With Googleand of course also with Openai, who used millions of texts to train Chatgpt, and Many of them had copyright. Perplexity was in the spotlight after discovering that He skipped the bullfighter Internet rules to avoid payment walls and feed your AI model. Internet robberies are being normalized. The amazing thing about all this is that the fact that all companies are skipping the norms and violating copyright seems to be normalizing the looting of the Internet. It almost does not give time to scandal and we give it almost as a policy of consummate facts to be able to follow ours. Is this really a “fair use”? All companies are shielded in the concept of “fair use” (“Fair Use”). This concept developed in Anglo -Saxon law allows the limited use of protected material without being necessary to ask for permission to do so. Copyright rapes have not stopped arriving in the world of generative AI, but they seem to be in the background while these giants thrive. In Xataka | 5,000 “tokens” of my blog are being used to train an AI. I have not given my permission

In 2026 the AI ​​will be as powerful as “10 million Nobel Awards” (and that raises a terrible dilemma)

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The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has marked in red in 2026 in its calendar, as explained in a long interview with the Podcast China Talk. For then, The technological gap between the United States and China in artificial intelligence It could close, and that would lead to having to make a critical decision: to advance with prudence or accelerate without regard. Why it is important. The arrival of AI models equivalent to “10 million Nobel awards working tirelessly,” says Amodei, will propose an existential dilemma: if China reaches the US in capacity, no country can afford to stop the development to make it safer . “If things are matched, we will have to worry about what they build and at the same time because they dominate us with technology. That puts us in a terrible dilemma where there are no options,” says Amodei. Between the lines. True fear is not competition with China in itself, but it derives in an uncontrolled career that forces us to deploy potentially dangerous technology before being prepared to handle it safely. Some examples that Amodei points out: The development of biological weapons: Deepseek It has already demonstrated the ability to generate information about Bioarmas “that is not easily found in Google or in textbooks.” Although today the models are not “literally dangerous”, this could change “later this year or next.” The lack of restrictions: Amodei points out that The Deepseek model “He had the worst performance of any model that we have tested, without absolutely any blockage” against the generation of dangerous information. The argument against regulation: “If we stop, China will simply ahead us.” This mentality, warns amodei, makes it impossible to implement effective safety regulations. Military capacity: Advanced models will have implications “to control dwarfs or analyze intelligence information,” says the CEO of Anthropic as an example of technologies that could be deployed prematurely by competitive pressure. By the way, Google has just eliminated mention not to develop weapons with AI. In detail. Amodei proposes a strategy with two legs: Maintain a two -year advantage over China through export controls. Use part of that temporary margin to implement security safeguards. “My concern is that if the United States and China are matched in this technology, elbow with an elbow at each stage, there will be nothing that prevents both sides from continuing the technology forward,” explains the CEO of Anthropic. Deepen. The technological career raises a paradoxical scenario: American success in containing China could be the only guarantee to develop a safer AI. But that same success could accelerate an escalation that makes more dangerous technology. The main loser? International cooperation. Although Amodei does not rule out agreements with China, he acknowledges that “there has not been much interest on China” in the security initiatives proposed by the USA. Only a “really convincing danger for human civilization” could change this dynamic. The big question. Is this dilemma inevitable? Amodei suggests that no, but warns that avoiding it would require irrefutable evidence that AI is an existential risk. For now, he says, “the arguments are suggestive enough to worry and take it seriously, but not enough for two competitive superpowers to say ‘okay, let’s stop’”. Indeed, it seems unlikely. In Xataka | I have tried Deepseek on the web and in my Mac. Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini have a problem Outstanding image | Techcrunch, Wikipedia

7,000 earthquakes in recent days, 11,000 evacuated and the possibility that the worst is to come

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After evacuating more than 11,000 people, half of the island’s population, Greece has had to declare the state of emergency on the island of Santorini. For two weeks, the island has suffered thousands of earthquakes. Only on January 4, there were 1,300 with magnitudes greater than 1. Only yesterday, smoke more than 200 and 28 of magnitude equal to or greater than 4. What is happening exactly in Santorini? A swarm. That is, a succession of thousands of earthquakes in a very concrete space and in a short space of time. As explained the geologist Nahúm Méndezis the direct consequence of the complex geology in the area. It is plaque tectonics, live and live. Nevertheless, As you recognize The volcanologist of the National Geographic Institute, Stavros Meletlidis, what is happening is not normal: “It is the first time that such an activity is recorded.” Are the prelude to something greater? It can be, but it doesn’t have to. In general terms, what we are seeing in Santorini is the accumulated product of the tensions that arise from the collision of the European plaque with the African. In the Santorini area, those pressures accumulate until the rocks “can no longer and break”, releasing large amounts of energy. As we have a good record of the seismic history of the island, we know that it is possible that a great earthquake is being prepared. Not so much of the last one: the Amorgos in 1956 reached 7.7caused more than 50 dead and waves up to 30 meters high. A great earthquake is not the only possibility. In This interferogram created from the Sentinel 1 datayou can see “a slight deformation in the northwest sector of the island after the seismic swarm that is happening on the island.” That, As experts point outit could be indicative of a deformation “due to the rise and location of the magma.” However, that does not mean that we are going to see an eruption. Volcanoes are extremely complex systems and “They can return to a state of ‘quiescence’ without erupting“We have seen it many times. And that is the big problem. When we talk about geology, our prelective capacity is very limited. After the eruption of La Palma, there were many information that indicated that seismic swarms ‘They warned’ for years What was going to happen. Unfortunately, the reality is that this can only be concluded to Toro Last. What can we do? As Méndez sayswe can only prepare for the different options that are forth from the table. One of the most exasperating things in geologies is that we still know too little and it is precisely in ignorance and uncertainty where monsters grow. Image | Tânia Mousinho | INSN In Xataka |

The government wants to end unwanted commercial calls. The question is whether they will stop calling me “of Indeed”

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One of the measures announced by the Government in October 2024 had to do with The end of the annoying commercial calls and telephone scams. The Ministry of Digital and Public Transformation presented A comprehensive plan To combat fraud from SMS and calls, a package that will be approved before the end of February. The norm will strictly prohibit commercial calls with numbers outside the prefixes 800 and 900. The problem? The Spaniards are dealing with another type of spam. One that has to do with the “human resources” departments. A plan against commercial calls. The Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function announced, yesterday, Thursday, that the Ministerial Order to combat cybetheafas through false commercial calls will be approved before the end of February. “That is, you will not be able to receive a commercial call from a mobile, that is happening today. We receive from a mobile, we think he is an acquaintance, a relative, we do not know who he is, and then it turns out that it is a commercial call. This will be prohibited by the ministerial order. ” Óscar López, Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function. Those companies that use numbers outside the prefixes 800 and 900 will face sanctions (still to be determined), and it will be possible to denounce before the Telecommunications User Attention Office to any number that breaches the new standard. Beyond Spanish companies. Similarly, work to try Block calls International that are identified as nationals, as well as those from numbers not assigned to any service, operator or customer. A database will also be launched in order to block text messages with alphanumeric characters (such as, when they send you fake Movistar SMS, mails, DHL, etc.). All messages that do not come from entities registered in the database will be blocked. This last measure is key, and on its success it will depend that the Spaniards are calmer in We call him of Indeed Human Resources. The problem of commercial calls is largely solved, pointing to The Robinson list. It is not infallible, but Organic Law 3/2018 on the protection of personal data prohibits companies from calling you for commercial purposes. Case apart, of course, they decide to skip the law. What, at least in recent months, has not had a solution, is the issue of the so -called “human resources”. It is more than likely that in recent months you have received a call in which a robot invites you to add its number to WhatsApp to know “work conditions.” The problem is so widespread that the own Incibe He published a statement warning about this fraud, recommended to users to block contact and report it as spam. Something that makes us frown at these calls is that they are not made with suspicious numbers, not even Google’s antispam filter can with them. The reason? They use completely real national numbers. How is it possible? ID SPOOFING. This technique is to modify or falsify the call identifier to match a “legitimate” number. It can be done from anywhere in the world so, although I call you a 6xx, the robot that is trying to cheat you does not have to be located in Spain. In fact, the scam is so sophisticated that scammers can adapt their calls so that, even being in another country, you receive a call from a national number (the country you are traveling to) talking in Spanish to offer you great employment conditions. Many of these scammers use voice services about IP (VOIP) to make these calls. This allows them to show a Caller ID (call identifier) ​​from any country, regardless of where they are. And regarding why they have your number, you have nothing more to write on Google “Mass filtration Xataka data”. Have dozens of articles published last year. The question is if it will be enough. The government has not yet detailed how it plans to fight against this type of calls. In the event that they are carried out from other countries, according to their promise, they should be able to intercept them. But if the ID Spoofing is done locally, it will not be easy to detect when a 6xx “real” and a 6xx that is made by another. In Xataka | Be careful with the false rental scam: how it works and why you never have to give the DNI happily Image | Unspash (Lindsey Lamont)

Patents linked to Switch 2 show the operation of the Joy-Con as if they were computer mice

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A patent filtered and linked to switch 2originally published in August 2023, shows characteristics of the Joy-Con de Switch 2 They didn’t know each other until now. The main and most noticeable for the change that supposes with respect to the controllers of the first switch is The use of controls as if they were computer micea characteristic that Nintendo has not confirmed but suggested that it could be included among the novelties of its new console. It was in the console presentation video (the only source of official information at the time of Switch 2), where the two controls are seen sliding down a surface by the color dorsos that connect to the screen. In the patent you see a hand holding a joy-with with the SR buttons supported on the surface and eye, the thumb on the stick. It seems to be intuited that the movement sensor will be in the same back as the aforementioned buttons. They are not the only secrets that reveal these patent documents: two more traditional grips are also raised, such as PlayStation and Xbox controls, but that would include (at least one of them) sensors to be also used as mice. Japanese terms that could be translated as ‘sensor to operate as a mouse’ appear in the documents 28 times. Recall that patent documents are not guarantee of anythingonly that Nintendo has explored in that direction, but added to the clues that the presentation spot gives, the bets are more or less safe. They are small clues that round out what will be the new Nintendo presentation of the characteristics of the console, on April 6 at 3:00 p.m. Until then it is unlikely that more official confirmations of the characteristics of the Switch 2 will arrive, although elements such as this “mouse mode” are given by guaranteed. Header | Nintendo In Xataka | Switch 2 appears to be more of the same. But that is exactly the strategy that Nintendo needs right now

We thought the tablets were falling into oblivion. We were wrong

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2023 was a simply terrible year For the tablets market. They sold one 20% less of tablets that in 2022, and is a segment in which the AI ​​is not expected to work as a sales incentive, unlike the mobile phones. No one was saved, not even Apple, with a year -on -year drop of 19.8%. Given the numbers, it was easy for 2024 to be a more positive year (when everything goes wrong, you can only go better). And indeed, This has been according to Canals. World shipments grew 9% year -on -year. Recovery signs. The tablets market remains far from 2020, the year in which it reached one of its historical peaks. The subsequent years were falling, and 2024 has been the first year since 2020 in which growth is experienced. According to Canals, we are entering the product renewal cycle, as well as in some recovery in the demand of tablets. According to Canalys sources, 2025 is expected to be a fairly solid year, with sustained growth throughout the different quarters. Offers and subsidies. Countries like China, with important subsidies for electronic productswill extend their programs by 2025. In others, as in Japan, government initiatives focused on the educational field are expected to help boost the sale of tablets. On the manufacturers side, some as honor have introduced strong sales packages (telephone + tablet, thus telling the tablet as sale, even if you only pay the phone) in countries such as the United Kingdom, and the rest of the Chinese brands are expected to expand Its presence in emerging countries. Cake distribution. There are not too many novelties in regards to who sells more tablets worldwide. The answer for years is clear. Apple Apple: Market share of the 38.6%annual growth of 5.3%. Samsung: Market share of the 18.8%annual growth of 8.2%. Lenovo: Market share of the 7.3%annual growth of 29.3%. Huawei: Market share of the 7.1%annual growth of 12.0%. Xiaomi: Market share of the 6.2%annual growth of 73.1%. Image | Xataka In Xataka | BEST TABLETS IN QUALITY PRICE. Which to buy based on use and recommended models

They are bad for mint performance and health, but prohibit them in school does not work

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In recent years, the great educational issue of half the world has been exactly the same: what to do with mobile phones at school. To such an extent the controversy that As Laura Cano says“The digitalization of minors is polarizing families inside and outside the classroom.” And worst of all, we have no data that allows us to know if either of the two options make more sense than the other. Until now we thought it was because the studies were biased, now we just discovered that it is for something else. The greatest global study to date. 1227 students from 30 schools in England that They have been monitoring For a year from the University of Birmingham. Not only have they obtained their records for the use of social networks, but a battery of mental health results, well -being, sleep quality and physical activity. Among those students were some that were in centers that had prohibited the use of smartphones during the school day and others that did not. What have you found out? The interesting thing is that Researchers have discovered that there are no differences between the two groups of students. Neither in mental well -being, nor in emotional disorders, nor in sedentary lifestyle, nor rest levels. There were neither substantial differences in academic achievements or in negative behavior. It is true that telephone prohibitions led to a slight decrease in the use of telephones (about 40 minutes) and social networks (about 30 minutes), but the impact is too epqueño to be significant. So no matter how time adolescents spend with the mobile? Not quite. The study He has found that there is “a link between spending more time for use and worse results in all things studied.” What happens is that the prohibition in schools does not have enough impact on the lives of young people to be decisive. That is to say, As Professor Miranda Pallan explainsfrom the University of Birmingham, research shows that “addressing the general use of the phone should be a priority to improve health and well -being among adolescents”, but “school policies are not the miraculous solution to prevent harmful effects” . In fact, we can be quite sure that “the restrictive policies on the recreational use of phones in schools do not lead to better results among students.” And what do we do? This seems to reinforce the ideas that some experts have been defending for years. Jose César Perales, Professor of Psychology of the UGR, denounced last year that “a cosmetic measure (prohibitions) is taken, while those that could contribute to improve the mental health of our teenagers continue in a drawer.” We run the risk, these experts come to tell us, to divert the meager resources of the system towards measures with little return. “What the evidence really says is that raising”, Perales said “It admits enormous variability and that, once the material and affective needs are covered, almost all the impacts of the concrete form of parenting are quite small.” The same is time to rethink how we are distributing resources. Image | Tim Reckmann In Xataka | Alone and connected, the paradox of loneliness at the time of the thousand “friends” in networks

The electric car is an overwhelming success in China. So much so that it makes no sense to call it like this

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The adoption of electric car in China It is far from what we have been watching in Europe for some time. Specifically, with a market share of 20% compared to just 6% in the EU, despite the efforts of manufacturers to electrify their fleets. This It has been growing firing for yearsthanks to direct subsidy policies, tax exemptions and, above all, a colossal investment in infrastructure. The world’s largest network for electric car recharge is there, with more than 8 million load points Ay Byd as a sales leader. The rhythm is being so vertiginous that, for some, the term “electric car” is beginning to become obsolete. The next step is the intelligent electric car. Catl word. Catl is the largest battery manufacturer globally, and one of the main weight names in the world of electric car. It provides batteries for many of the manufacturers, and at the annual meeting of the Davos Economic Forum put on the table A new term: ‘EIV’. Currently, we refer to electric vehicles such as EV (Electric Vehicle) but Pan Jian, Co -president of CALT, states that the term EIV begins to gain strength. The message is clear: the electric car is ceasing to be, simply, an electric car. Intelligence. Beyond marketing strategies, the reality is that the electric car is rotating much more than a car moved by electricity. Manufacturers like byd are planned to invest 13.6 billion dollars in IA development For electric cars. Others, such as Xiaomi, focus efforts on offering driver and Aito assistance systems, a company participated by Huawei, have given several lessons to European manufacturers about The autonomous parking. China leads the integration of intelligent technologies into electric vehicles, and the focus on software (in front of the chaos of some European manufacturers), It is a good proof of this. Upward forecasts. By 2025, It is expected that China sells a total of 12 million electric. To know if it is much or little, you can use the fact that in Europe less than one million were enrolled in Europe. Despite The obstacles that Europe wants to put to China In its price war, the country is enough and left over its local brands both in its land and outside it. Image | Byd In Xataka | NEW BYD ATTO 2: already available in Spain the bet of ByD in the electric car segment of 25,000 euros (or less)

Apple plans to present the iPhone is 4 in the next few days, according to Gurman. The arrival of the expected mobile is approaching

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Apple last updated the iPhone se Three years ago. In March 2022 A new device appeared that retained the lines, the LCD visualization panel and the Touch ID of The previous generation. It was a continuous bet that did not risk too much. This may be about to change, At least according to what Mark Gurman says. Bloomberg analyst points out that Apple plans to present the iPhone se 4 next week. Shipments, according to the sources consulted, would begin at the end of the month. We are facing a rumor that does not go unnoticed because it is one of the most anticipated phones of the Cupertino company, mainly for what its review promises. What to expect from the iPhone se 4? Rumors about the device have been accumulating for a long time, all before the silence that Apple usually. Recall that the apple signature does not usually provide No track about your products until the day of your presentation. However, Gurman’s reputation allows us to carefully contemplate the following unofficial information. It will have a bigger screen with Face ID Will release design without the classic starting button Will equip an A18 chip like the one that has the iPhone 16 Will stop using the modem made by Qualcomm How could it be anticipated, the iPhone will be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Gurman does not need the amount of RAM that the phone will have, but we could assume that it will arrive with 8 GB to support this feature that has become central for the firm led by Tim Cook. What has been confirmed that it is that It will arrive with USB-C port. Nor are there details about the price, data that we will know if it finally occurs within a few days. As a reference, the iPhone 3 reached the market in 2022 at a price of 529 euros. This year also promises to be interesting for the rest of the family’s products, with the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro receiving important updates. Images | AB In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy S25+, Analysis: When you are really great, continuity is the right decision … but with extra with

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