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Research / talent is how Mistral was able to justify its valuation at 3 weeks old. Pre product, pre anything.
by alex1212 3y ago
Research / talent is how Mistral was able to justify its valuation at 3 weeks old. Pre product, pre anything.
- claytonjy 3y agoYes, totally. Not something anyone reading this is going to replicate!
- alex1212 3y agoInterestingly enough I think there is lack of talent on the investment side of things too. Very few investors have the right skillsets in their teams to be able to do deep technical due diligence required for true AI solutions.
- Palmik 3y ago> Not something anyone reading this is going to replicate! They were L7/L6 ML researchers/eng at FAANG, I'd bet there are quite a few people like that lurking here.
- claytonjy 3y agoI think there's rather more to it than that. Two of these guys are on the Llama paper; the hype and momentum from that is surely responsible for a huge chunk of their valuation. If you take the big LLM-relevant papers, most of the folks with this kind of profile are already off doing some kind of startup. The Mistral folks have impeccable timing, but are leaving FAANG somewhat late compared to their peers.
- Palmik 3y agoDefinitely. Just to be clear, my comment wasn't to diminish the Mistral folks, they are certainly a very impressive group, but rather to contest your implication about the audience here.