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🤖 Mistral takes on Claude with Medium 3

🤖 Mistral takes on Claude with Medium 3

PLUS: Figma unveils AI Design Suite

Jaynit Makwana & Dhaval Makwana
May 09, 2025

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In today’s WakeTheAI edition:

Mistral launches Medium 3
Figma unveils AI Design Suite
Prompt: Six Sigma Efficiency Blueprint
OpenAI hires Instacart CEO “Fidji Simo”
Google launches a native Gemini App for iPad
Microsoft bans employees from using DeepSeek
ChatGPT’s deep research tool now connects to GitHub

MISTRAL
🤖 Mistral launches Medium 3

Lazy Bits: Mistral has launched Mistral Medium 3, a new enterprise-grade model offering near-SOTA performance at 8x lower cost, optimized for coding, STEM, and real-world deployment.

In-Depth Details:

Efficient Performance: Medium 3 matches 90% of Claude Sonnet 3.7’s performance across benchmarks while costing significantly less, just $0.4 input / $2 output per million tokens.
Enterprise Features: Supports custom post-training, fine-tuning, and seamless integration into private cloud, on-premise, or hybrid enterprise environments.
Deployment Flexibility: Can be hosted on any cloud or self-deployed on setups with 4+ GPUs, enabling cost-effective and secure customization.
Coding & STEM Focus: Outperforms LLaMA 4 Maverick and Cohere Command R+ in both academic benchmarks and human coding evaluations.
Enterprise Use Cases: Early adopters in finance, energy, and healthcare are using Medium 3 for personalized service, data analysis, and adaptive workflows.

Lazy Conclusion: Mistral isn’t just chasing benchmarks; it’s building real-world AI infrastructure. Medium 3 shows that frontier performance no longer requires frontier costs, giving enterprises a flexible, powerful model they can truly own, deploy, and adapt.

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FIGMA
🎨 Figma unveils AI Design Suite

Lazy Bits: Figma just unveiled a major product overhaul at Config 2025, launching a new AI-powered website builder, instant app prototyping, and advanced brand tools all aimed at redefining how designers build, ship, and market digital products.

In-Depth Details:

Figma Sites: A no-code website builder that lets users design, build, and publish responsive sites, with AI generating production-ready code.
Figma Make: Transforms text prompts or rough designs into working prototypes using Claude 3.7, accelerating the ideation process.
Figma Buzz: Helps teams generate brand-consistent content emails, ads, and social posts at scale using AI and spreadsheet inputs.
Figma Draw: Introduces advanced vector editing, custom brushes, and pattern fills directly inside Figma Design.
AI Integration: Adds smart autocomplete, grouping, and content rewriting features to speed up design and collaboration.
Developer Mode Upgrades: New Grid system outputs clean CSS and improves design-to-dev handoff accuracy.
Localization Push: Expands support to Brazilian Portuguese alongside existing Japanese, Spanish, and Korean markets.

Lazy Conclusion: Figma isn’t just a design tool anymore; it’s evolving into a full-stack platform that merges design, development, and marketing into one seamless workflow. With these AI-native upgrades, it's clear Figma wants to be the operating system for digital creation.

Six Sigma Efficiency Blueprint

You can ask ChatGPT to act as your Six Sigma optimization strategist, guiding you through a structured DMAIC-based approach to improve operational efficiency and reduce waste.

ChatGPT will break down each phase—Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control into actionable strategies tailored to your business workflow, KPIs, and available resources.

The result will be a clear, tactical playbook designed for lean, modern teams to implement measurable, sustainable improvements.

Prompt:

Act as a Six Sigma optimization strategist with expertise in business process improvement. Your task is to develop a structured, phase-based guide that applies the DMAIC methodology to enhance operational efficiency and eliminate waste in a specific business workflow. The output should focus on practical actions for each stage of the DMAIC cycle.

The goal is to drive measurable improvements using data-backed analysis and targeted interventions that align with the team’s KPIs and resource constraints.

Key Focus Areas:

1. Define – Clarify the problem, objectives, scope, and customer expectations for the process.
2. Measure – Identify key metrics and gather baseline data on current process performance.
3. Analyze – Pinpoint root causes of inefficiencies and map where the process is breaking down.
4. Improve – Recommend tactical solutions that directly address the issues identified in the analysis.
5. Control – Suggest monitoring systems, documentation standards, and policies to sustain improvements.

Key Information To Include:

Business Process: [Briefly describe the workflow you're aiming to improve]
Industry: [Define your field to contextualize best practices]
Key Performance Indicators: [List the metrics used to evaluate success]
Current Process Bottlenecks: [Highlight obstacles or inefficiencies in your current setup]
Available Resources: [Specify your tools, team capacity, tech, or budget]

Output Requirements:

• Format your solution as a markdown table with five columns: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control.
• Include at least 5 action items or strategies under each phase.
• Ensure the content is tactical, measurable, and applicable to lean, modern teams.
• Focus on clarity and repeatability to make this a reusable playbook for future process reviews.

Result:

ChatGPT's deep research tool now connects to GitHub, letting users ask questions about codebases, analyze docs, and generate real code insights.
Google launches a native Gemini app for iPad with split view, AI tools, and multitasking, offering more than just a resized iPhone experience.
Apple’s Eddy Cue says AI could make the iPhone obsolete within 10 years, much like how the iPod was replaced by newer technology.
Microsoft bans employees from using DeepSeek over data security and Chinese propaganda concerns, citing risks tied to its China-based servers and censorship.
OpenAI hires Fidji Simo, Instacart CEO and ex-Facebook app chief, to lead its apps division, letting Sam Altman focus on research, compute, and safety.