1) as a developer or founder looking to experiment quickly and cheaply with llm ideas, this (and llama etc) are huge gifts 2) for the research community, makin

1) as a developer or founder looking to experiment quickly and cheaply with llm ideas, this (and llama etc) are huge gifts 2) for the research community, making this work available helps everyone (even OpenAI and Google, insofar as they've done something not yet tried at those larger orgs) 3) Mistral is well positioned to get money from investors or as consultants for large companies looking to fine tune or build models for super custom use cases The world is big and there's plenty of room for everyone!! Google and OpenAI haven't tried all permutations of research ideas - most researchers at the cutting edge have dozens of ideas they still want to try, so having smaller orgs trying things at smaller scales is really great for pushing the frontier! Of course it's always possible that some major tech co playing from behind (ahem, apple) might acquire some LLM expertise too