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Isn't the recent AI regulation voted in Europe a problem for this company?

eurekin 3y ago
With that valuation, they could pick any country they like
TacticalCoder 3y ago
> Isn't the recent AI regulation voted in Europe a problem for this company? Maybe not that big of a problem but the EU legislation that just passed wants the companies building models to hand over technical documentation, comply with EU copyright laws and give detailed information about the data used for training the models. So basically I take it's there's going to be some annoying administrative work to do but it doesn't seem impossible to comply with.
sailingparrot 3y ago
"The European Union's landmark Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act may exempt open-source models from strict regulation, according to a leaked compromise proposal seen by Reuters." [1] And Mistral has been betting on an open-source first approach. One might even wonder if there is some causation between the two decisions, one direction or the other. [1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-ai-act-could-exclude-open-source-models-regulation-2023-12-07/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-ai-act-could-exclude-...
- mark_l_watson 3y ago
  The EU would have to be crazy to not support smaller local European companies like Mistral (a French company). So good for their economy and securing their own AI infrastructure. I have ranted about this before on HN, so bear with me here: all countries should take reasonable steps that they can afford to secure their own infrastructure: energy, water, food, some local manufacturing, IT, AI, education, etc. This “one world order” stuff is bull-shit. The world is a better place with many cultures, ethnicities, more self-sufficiency, etc. My wife and I like to travel to meet people with very different backgrounds, see new places. I cringe thinking of a “vanilla” world where large corporations and elite interests “homogenize” the world.
  - snordgren 3y ago
    The EU hasn’t done much to build local Big Tech companies, why would it be different with AI? I think the EU and its member countries are largely content with taxing American tech giants - no need to rock the boat.
arlort 3y ago
It doesn't substantially change your question but it hasn't been voted on yet, an agreement between the negotiators for parliament and council has been made, it'll likely pass but we don't even have the actual text As for the actual question, there was talk about foundational models being subject to less scrutiny than the applications using them. So it's quite possible it won't be a problem for Mistral or other LLM companies But again, we don't actually know what the latest agreement was and what the new draft will be like
ur-whale 3y ago
> Isn't the recent AI regulation voted in Europe a problem for this company? The world is a big place. And moving the talent to a place less regulation-crazy than the EU is not very hard.

With that valuation, they could pick any country they like

> Isn't the recent AI regulation voted in Europe a problem for this company? Maybe not that big of a problem but the EU legislation that just passed wants the companies building models to hand over technical documentation, comply with EU copyright laws and give detailed information about the data used for training the models. So basically I take it's there's going to be some annoying administrative work to do but it doesn't seem impossible to comply with.

sailingparrot 3y ago

"The European Union's landmark Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act may exempt open-source models from strict regulation, according to a leaked compromise proposal seen by Reuters." [1] And Mistral has been betting on an open-source first approach. One might even wonder if there is some causation between the two decisions, one direction or the other. [1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-ai-act-could-exclude-open-source-models-regulation-2023-12-07/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-ai-act-could-exclude-...

mark_l_watson 3y ago
The EU would have to be crazy to not support smaller local European companies like Mistral (a French company). So good for their economy and securing their own AI infrastructure. I have ranted about this before on HN, so bear with me here: all countries should take reasonable steps that they can afford to secure their own infrastructure: energy, water, food, some local manufacturing, IT, AI, education, etc. This “one world order” stuff is bull-shit. The world is a better place with many cultures, ethnicities, more self-sufficiency, etc. My wife and I like to travel to meet people with very different backgrounds, see new places. I cringe thinking of a “vanilla” world where large corporations and elite interests “homogenize” the world.
- snordgren 3y ago
  The EU hasn’t done much to build local Big Tech companies, why would it be different with AI? I think the EU and its member countries are largely content with taxing American tech giants - no need to rock the boat.

arlort 3y ago

It doesn't substantially change your question but it hasn't been voted on yet, an agreement between the negotiators for parliament and council has been made, it'll likely pass but we don't even have the actual text As for the actual question, there was talk about foundational models being subject to less scrutiny than the applications using them. So it's quite possible it won't be a problem for Mistral or other LLM companies But again, we don't actually know what the latest agreement was and what the new draft will be like

ur-whale 3y ago

> Isn't the recent AI regulation voted in Europe a problem for this company? The world is a big place. And moving the talent to a place less regulation-crazy than the EU is not very hard.