AI Updates: Feb 26 - Mar 03

This weekly roundup lists five AI news stories from February 26 to March 3. The UK and France announced a collaboration on AI research and development, following the UK's recent accession to the Horizon Europe program. Mistral AI unveiled a large language model that is claimed to rival models from Google and OpenAI. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) released an LLM together with its training data, weights, and code, and the roundup also covers Stability AI's Stable Code 3B and a UK Home Secretary warning about deepfakes ahead of elections.