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You might think that new generative AI startups like Eleven Labs are at the forefront of translation services. However, voice translation has long been preceded by a significant market focused on content translation, which has attracted attention from startups for quite some time. Any company operating on an international scale requires efficient content translation, making this a lucrative market. For instance, Unbabel in Portugal has raised an impressive $106 million to date, including a recent $60 million funding round.

Mistral, the French AI startup valued at $6 billion and backed by Microsoft, has introduced its first generative AI model for coding, named Codestral. This innovative model is designed to assist developers in writing and interacting with code, being trained on over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java, C++, and JavaScript, as mentioned in Mistral's blog post. Codestral can effectively complete coding functions, write tests, fill in incomplete code segments, and answer questions regarding codebases in English.

When developers face a specific challenge that AI can address, simply pointing a large language model (LLM) at the data is rarely sufficient. Critical factors such as cost, speed, and accuracy must be considered, and balancing these elements can be complex, especially with the continuous emergence of new models.