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Nothing stops them from launching a chat app.
by nothrowaways 3y ago
Nothing stops them from launching a chat app.
- quickthrower2 3y agoThe old open source, but we'll host it for you? I think Bezos is going to be in fits of evil laughter about that model in 5 years, as all the open source compute moves to the clouds, with dollars flowing his way. But one thing Mistral could do is have a free foundational model, and have non-free (as in beer, as in speech) "pro" models. I think they will have to.
- dartos 3y agoRelease small, open, foundational models. Deploy larger, fine tuned variants and charge for them. There’s a reason we don’t have the data set or original training scripts for mistral
- behnamoh 3y agoit’s a “mistry” ;)
- teekert 3y agoHere's to hoping such models run on dedicated chips locally, on Phones and PCs etc...
- emadm 3y agoThey already do, we just released a model equivalent to most 40-60b base models that runs on a MacBook Air no problem. It's like 1.6gb, ones coming are better and smaller https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1732912442282312099?s=20 https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1732912442282312099?s=20 I think the large language model paradigm is pretty much done as we move to satisficing tbh
- simonw 3y agoThere are huge economy of scale benefits from providing hosted models. I've been trying out all sorts of open models, and some of them are really impressive - but for my deployed web apps I'm currently sticking with OpenAI, because the performance and price I get from their API is generally much better than I can get for open models. If Mistral offered a hosted version which didn't have any spin-up time and was price competitive with OpenAI I would be much more likely to build against their models.
- quickthrower2 3y agoThis only is defensible for closed models though.
- echelon 3y agoZero moat. Everybody's doing it. I suppose they could be the Google to everyone else's Yahoo and Dogpile, but I expect that to be a hard game to play these days.