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Mistral raises a $640M Series B led by General Catalyst at a $6B valuation
- beefman 2y agoAlternative source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/12/mistral_ai_funding/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/12/mistral_ai_funding/
- omega3 2y agoPerhaps I'm missing something but what's the usp of Mistral, as far as I can see their models aren't competitive?
- questime 2y agoThe USP is the same as Rheinmetall and Thales, juicy government contracts since they are "European" and important for "Sovereignty".
- lxgr 2y agoThere's already talk about nationalizing large models and clusters Manhattan project style. But even taking that with a very large grain of salt, doesn't it seem like a no-brainer to want to incentivize at least some LLM development to happen in Europe as well?
- gnabgib 2y agoDiscussion [0] (111 points, yesterday, 60 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651298