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Is this release a pleasant surprise? Mistral weakened their commitment to open source when they partnered with Microsoft. It's nice they're using some of the m
by orra 2y ago
Is this release a pleasant surprise? Mistral weakened their commitment to open source when they partnered with Microsoft.
It's nice they're using some of the money from their commercial and proprietary models, to improve the state of the art for open source (open weights) models.
- qeternity 2y agoMistral just released the most powerful open weight model in the history of humanity. How did they weaken their commitment to open weights?
- orra 2y ago> Mistral just released the most powerful open weight model in the history of humanity. Well, yeah, it's very welcome, but 'history of humanity' is hyperbole given ChatGPT isn't even two years old. > How did they weaken their commitment to open weights? Before https://web.archive.org/web/20240225001133/https://mistral.ai/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240225001133/https://mistral.a... versus after https://web.archive.org/web/20240227025408/https://mistral.ai/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240227025408/https://mistral.a... the Microsoft partnership announcement: > Committing to open models. to > That is why we started our journey by releasing the world’s most capable open-weights models There were similar changes on their about the Company page.