AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models

OpenAI, Google, and the French artificial intelligence startup Mistral have all released new versions of their frontier AI models within 12 hours of one another, as the industry prepares for a burst of activity over the summer. The unprecedented flurry of releases come as the sector readies for the expected launch of the next major version of GPT, the system that underpins OpenAI's hit chatbot Chat-GPT. The first came only hours after Nick Clegg appeared on stage at an event in London, where he confirmed that the third version of Meta's own AI model, Llama, would be published in a matter of weeks. Seven hours after Clegg left the stage, Google's Gemini Pro 1.5, his competitor's most advanced large language model, was released to the general public, with a free tier limited to 50 requests a day. An hour later, OpenAI released its own frontier model, the final version of GPT-4 Turbo.