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Posted by kuberwastaken 6 hours ago

Mistral raises €3B(mistral.ai)
498 points | 350 commentspage 3
0x20cowboy 5 hours ago|
Très bien! C’est parti!
darkteflon 4 hours ago||
Surely outfits like Sakana will be looking at a similar strategy. The White House / Anthropic spat supercharged all this.
zoobab 4 hours ago||
Still no training data in sight.

Maybe we need to abolish copyright?

cl-coder 5 hours ago||
So I suppose mistral-large-4 then in a few months?
nalekberov 4 hours ago||
"Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier". Oh yeah, that sounds reasonable, indeed, one receives this much money just for sovereignty's sake.
shevy-java 4 hours ago||
They are all responsible for driving up RAM prices.

I want my money back.

lain98 5 hours ago||
I've been applying to jobs at Mistral, just straight rejects.

Not even a phone call :(

elvennn 5 hours ago||
I applied, I had multiple interviews, I got reject because I was bad during them.

Anyway, the interview process was so janky it decreased my confidence in their success.

selestify 4 hours ago||
Care to share any more?
tasoeur 4 hours ago|||
I’ve heard many folks get rejected and leave with a bad taste in their mouth. Interviews should make you feel like you’ve failed due to you not being quite there while still recommending friends to apply (“I didn’t make it but you should try to apply!” Vs “i felt like I had the privilege of even talking to the dude and then got ghosted”).
colesantiago 4 hours ago||
Instead of trying to get into Mistral, why don't you make your own Mistral?

Not easy as it sounds yes, but it is better than throwing your CV into the ATS void 1000 times (the wrong way to apply for a job btw)

Mistral have no moat as it seems except some 'regulatory' moat.

rytsEa 1 hour ago||
I am sure plenty of people had the same thought.
Morkeeth 5 hours ago||
Europes last chance
throwa356262 5 hours ago||
I don't know.

The moat doesn't seem to exist. Probably safer to stay out of the race for now.

codingbot3000 2 hours ago|||
"Probably safer to stay out of the race for now."

What kind of attitude is that?

alansaber 5 hours ago||||
Stay out of the race sounds insane when AI is, and will be, a common commodity. China is getting great bang for their buck on AI training, why not the same for Europe?
aurareturn 4 hours ago|||
I’m still looking for no-moatists to logically explain why there is no moat in SOTA LLMS.

That paper released by a lone Google employee 3 years ago still misguiding people it seems.

Zambyte 2 hours ago|||
The vast majority of people simply don't need SOTA models. I run most of my programming on a single 7900 XTX with Qwen 3.8 27b. I'm more interested in scaling out to run more instances of the model in parallel, than I am in scaling up to better models.
throwa356262 3 hours ago|||
My reasoning is that we have seen multiple small labs come out of nowhere and create impressive models.
aurareturn 3 hours ago||
Impressive doesn't mean sustainable.

We're also seeing behemoths like Google and Meta both fail to keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Microsoft has given up on SOTA training. Loads of once promising LLM training companies are no longer relevant at the SOTA stage such as Cohere, Mistral.

I've said this countless times but SOTA LLM market looks like a classic monopoly/duopoly market over time. Each generation requires magnitudes more resources to train and you can only compete if you've made enough money on your previous generation.

throwa356262 33 minutes ago||
On the contrary, small efficient models using recent improvements should be more sustainable than huge frontier models that require billions and years to train
eloisant 4 hours ago||
On the contrary, Europe needs a wider AI ecosystem and not rely on just one company
Vineetyadav2 3 hours ago||
another ponji scheme
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