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Mistral, the French AI startup, unveiled Forge, a platform that enables enterprises and governments to train custom AI models using their own data. Announced at Nvidia's GTC conference, Forge offers a library of open-weight models, including the new Mistral Small 4, and provides forward‑deployed engineers to guide customers through data preparation, evaluation, and infrastructure choices. Early partners such as Ericsson, the European Space Agency, Reply, and Singapore’s DSO and HTX are already testing the service. Mistral aims to address the gap where off‑the‑shelf models trained on internet data fail to understand specific business contexts, positioning itself as a serious contender against OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise market. Read more

Amazon Web Services announced a new generation of its Nova AI models—Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, Nova 2 Sonic and Nova 2 Omni—alongside a Nova Forge service that lets enterprises build customized versions of the models. The launch, revealed at the AWS re:Invent keynote, expands Nova’s capabilities across text, image, video and speech tasks and offers a pathway for companies to train the models on proprietary data for a subscription fee. Read more