Very interesting read on Mistral.
“One advantage that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic can replicate: What Mensch terms “community solidarity” with Macron and other European leaders. He knows Mistral’s fate is inexorably tied to Europe’s. “If we’re successful, Europe will be successful,” he says.”
Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn...
