Timestral is a new family of time-series foundation models. Its largest model has 209M parameters and ranks first on GIFT-Eval, TIME, and fev-bench. The article says this beats the previous state of the art while using only two-thirds of its parameters. Time-series forecasting has mostly relied on models trained for one dataset at a time, so a pre-trained model that forecasts well on data it has never seen is a significant change. Why pre-trained forecasting matters Time series is one of the most common data types in enterprise, from sensor telemetry to observability metrics. Forecasts...

Today, Mozilla and Mistral announced a partnership to bring privacy, control, and choice to AI-powered web browsing. Firefox Smart Window (beta), Mozilla's AI browsing assistant, is now powered by Mistral models. Smart Window helps users make sense of complex searches, remember important information they've clicked away from, and source information based on their browser tabs. Mistral will power Smart Window for users in France and North America, with the United Kingdom and Germany expected to follow later this year. Mistral and Firefox join forces to deliver open, privacy-focused AI...