Mistral
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European AI company developing open-source language models as an alternative to American AI labs.
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How Mistral compares
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OpenAI
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leading American AI lab
Rory says Mistral isn't really competing with OpenAI on raw capability; it exists so Europe has its own AI, not to win a tech race.
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Rory says Mistral isn't really competing with OpenAI on raw capability; it exists so Europe has its own AI, not to win a tech race.
"The strategy for the also-rans, which are the Chinese companies and Mistral, which is a French European company, is to release all their AI models open weights."
Described as less capable than models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini
"If you're saying Mistral is now competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the frontier model race, you and I know that would be bullshit. I think what you're really saying is Europe has decided that a technology as important as this has to ..."
Compared to OpenAI and Anthropic as frontier model competitors; framed as an AI sovereignty play rather than a competitive threat
What creators say
"We have a whole bunch of Llama and Mistral running and stuff internally and a bunch of OpenAI."
More from Mike Cannon Brooks →+1 more mention from Mike
"We use some Mistral, we use a bunch of other open models in different parts."
"We're invested in Sarvam in India and we are invested in, or investing in, Mistral right now."
More from Sameer Dholakia →"The strategy for the also-rans, which are the Chinese companies and Mistral, which is a French European company, is to release all their AI models open weights."
More from Ethan Mollick →"In Europe you have Mistral and this type of thing. I think it's a very good thing. I think it's very good in general. More diversity is just better."
More from Thomas Wolf →"If you're saying Mistral is now competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the frontier model race, you and I know that would be bullshit. I think what you're really saying is Europe has decided that a technology as important as this has to have a sov..."
More from Rory O'Driscoll →
"Mistral is the European model family. If you care about efficient models, they do a lot of releasing, a lot of practical developer use cases. It's a strong model with a pretty builder-friendly posture. The downside is the lineup is a little confus..."
More from Greg Isenberg →"When Mistral dropped their first model, they just dropped a torrent link, and then everybody was struggling and trying to get it up and running. And then we were working behind the scenes with the Mistral team trying to get the inference engines w..."
More from Simon Mo →"The more Mistral Thinking Machines type of strategy is to take the open source model and then use it as a lead generation tool for companies to build on top of that and then come to you and say, 'Can you help us fine-tune? Can you help us with our..."
More from Anastasios Angelopoulos →"I'm always impressed by Mistral in that perspective. They managed to build a company that is valued at 12 billion, which is extremely impressive."
More from Stanislas Polu →"Mistral raising at $20 billion. They've actually been incredible in terms of their kind of FD model. They've scaled to over half a billion dollars some of the biggest enterprises in Europe."
More from Harry Stebbings →
"A lot of companies are helping startups fine-tune and post-train their own models. Companies like Fireworks.ai and a number of other ones — Together AI, Thinking Machines Lab, Mistral, etc."
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"Lechat is the chat GPT from Mistral. And I was just thinking French AI talk to it, Lechat."
"I know it's big in Europe, right? You have Mistral there, you have a lot of great PhDs, etc."
"Congrats to Mistral on launching Le Chat."
More from John Coogan →+1 more mention from John
"Obviously, Mistral is in the news. Incredibly bullish for Mistral. The sovereign AI thesis could not get any stronger right now."
"Congrats to Mistral on launching Le Chat Fat."
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