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Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories
- crowcroft 1y agoSeems like LeChat identifies itself as python-httpx/0.28.1 instead of setting a proper name.
- amelius 1y ago> Everything available on the Free plan Cool!
- aargh_aargh 1y ago> Directory of 20+ secure connectors What does secure mean in this context? I didn't see it explained here. Perhaps they mean this? > Admin users can confidently control which connectors are available to whom in their organization, with on-behalf authentication, ensuring users only access data they’re permitted to.
- oezi 1y agoYeah, and what kind of features do MCPs by Stripe and Paypal offer? Currency comversion? Fees? API Docs?
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- ffsm8 1y agoMaybe also transaction search (helpful for customer support), just the currency conversion ratio or balances, helpful for accounting etc. lots of read only usecases around
- raffael_de 1y agoEvery time I tried a Mistral model I was left rather underwhelmed and just went back to the usual options. Seems like their only USP at this point is Made in EU.
- baq 1y agothey're also fast.
- raffael_de 1y agoSo are Gemini Flash (Lite) and GPT mini/nano.
- threeducks 1y ago- 1100 tokens/second Mistral Flash Answers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_F2umJH58 - 189.9 tokens/second Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite - 45.92 tokens/second GPT-5 Nano https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5-nano - 1799 tokens/second gpt-oss-120b (via Cerebras) https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b - 666.8 tokens/second Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (via Cerebras) https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507 Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and GPT-5 Nano seem to be comparatively slow. That being said, I can not find non-marketing numbers for Mistral Flash Answers. Real-world tps are likely lower, so this comparison chart is not very fair.
- simion314 1y ago>Seems like their only USP at this point is Made in EU. They are also releasing model weights for most of their models, where companies like Antropic and until recently OpenAI were FUDing the world that open source will doom us all. Mistral smartest model is still behind Google, Antropic but they will catch up.
- swores 1y agoNot a big deal, but FYI there's an 'h' in the company name "Anthropic". Inspired by the Greek word for human: Anthropos / ἄνθρωπος, the same etymology as English words like anthropology, the study of humans. (I'd hazard a guess that your first language is something like a Romance language such as French, where people would pronounce that "anthro..." as if there is no h? So a particularly reasonable letter to forget when typing!)
- baalimago 1y agoStrongest argument I see for Mistral is that it's European. Which isn't a very good argument.
- epolanski 1y agoIt's fast. Very fast. It's even faster than Gemini flash, which is fast.
- htrp 1y agoIs that due to usage (or lack thereof)?
- drno123 1y agoAlso, speed.
- mkreis 1y agoIt is in regards to the GDPR. If you're a European vendor and process PII, you must ensure some level of data protection. If you want to be on the safe side, you'll pick European providers instead of US hyperscalers (who have EU data centers, but are still US owned).
- apwell23 1y agohow does the 'memory' feature in mistral work wrt GDPR if i type in my personal information ?
- dax_ 1y agoGDPR doesn't stop personal data being stored. It handles whom it can be shared with, when it has to be deleted, and only collect as much data as required. Also gives transparency to the users about their data use. And if I were to give over personal information to an AI company, then absolutely I'll prefer a company who actually complies with GDPR.
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- barrell 1y agoI recently upgraded a large portion of my pipeline from gpt-4.1-mini to gpt-5-mini. The performance was horrible - after some research I decided to move everything to mistral-medium-0525. Same price, but dramatically better results, way more reliable, and 10x faster. The only downside is when it does fail, it seems to fail much harder. Where gpt-5-mini would disregard the formatting in the prompt 70% of the time, mistral-medium follows it 99% of the time, but the other 1% of the time inserts random characters (for whatever reason, normally backticks... which then causes it's own formatting issues). Still, very happy with Mistral so far!
- brcmthrowaway 1y agoWhat are you actually making
- barrell 1y agohttps://phrasing.app https://phrasing.app I’m making an app to learn multiple languages. This portion of the pipeline is about explaining everything I can determine about a work in a sentence in specifically formatted prose. Example: https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1963684443006066772?s=46&t=aEq34ARsgqYIBlyTDH7Tkg https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1963684443006066772?s=46&t=...
- dotancohen 1y agoThis looks great. I invest over an hour a day on Anki, so I'm probably your target audience. I'd love to try Phrasing, but there is no way that I'm going to give my credit card information if I've never seen how it works. I'm not asking for special treatment. I think the 4 Euro 14 day trial should be free. Not because I don't want to pay, but because I don't want my credit card details shared with every service I ever try. Yes, I understand that your credit card provider is safe and that is not my worry. It's just that handing over that information is a very large hurdle, and one that users get over only after you built trust with them. If we can never see what we're getting, we have no reason to get over that hurdle and develop that trust.
- moralestapia 1y agoWith all the recent news, I cas see Mistral raising billions soon. Not that I endorse it, though.
- jdross 1y agoThey just did
- moralestapia 1y agoYou're right!
- mark_l_watson 1y agoI pay to use ProtonMail’s privacy preserving Lumo LLM Chat with good web_search tooling. Lumo is powered by Mistral models. I use Lumo a lot and usually results are good enough. To be clear though, I do fall back on gemini-cli and OpenAI’s codex systems for coding a few times a week. I live in the US, but if I were a European, I would be all in on supporting Mistral. Strengthen your own country and region.
- g-mork 1y agoI wonder what ProtonMail are doing internally? Mistral's public API endpoints route via CloudFlare, just like apparently every other hosted LLM out there, even any of the Chinese models I've checked
- fauigerzigerk 1y ago>I live in the US, but if I were a European, I would be all in on supporting Mistral. Strengthen your own country and region That's a bit of a double edged sword. My support goes as far as giving local offerings a try when I might not have done otherwise. But at that point they need to be able to compete on merit.
- ac29 1y agoMistral small and large are open weight, so they are likely self hosting?
- TranquilMarmot 1y agohttps://proton.me/support/lumo-privacy https://proton.me/support/lumo-privacy > Lumo is powered by open-source large language models (LLMs) which have been optimized by Proton to give you the best answer based on the model most capable of dealing with your request. The models we’re using currently are Nemo, OpenHands 32B, OLMO 2 32B, and Mistral Small 3. These run exclusively on servers Proton controls so your data is never stored on a third-party platform.
- basisword 1y ago>> I live in the US, but if I were a European, I would be all in on supporting Mistral. Strengthen your own country and region. The problem is that if it's actually successful it'll just be bought by one of the big US based competitors.
- joshwarwick15 1y agoCollection of Remote only MCP Servers here: https://github.com/jaw9c/awesome-remote-mcp-servers https://github.com/jaw9c/awesome-remote-mcp-servers
- apwell23 1y agoI don't use any of those products except github. which i don't need mcp for since i use claude code with gh cli installed.
- mickael-kerjean 1y agoIf someone from mistral comes around, is there a way for third party MCP implementation to be in the connector directory? I built a MCP connector allowing people to connect to every possible file transfer protocol from S3 to FTP(S), SFTP, SMB, NFS, Gdrive, Dropbox, azure blob, onedrive, sharepoint, etc.. and have a couple layers to delegate authentication, enforce authorisation, support for RBAC and create chroots so the LLM can't go haywire + tools to visualise and or edit hundreds of file format. Would be awesome to get it listed, and it's open source: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
- signatoremo 1y agoRelated, Mistral is closing ơn a funding round at $14 billion valuation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mistral-set-for-14-billion-valuation-with-new-funding-round https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mistral-s...
- SilverElfin 1y agoDoesn’t seem like much. Anthropic raised nearly as much the other day in funding as what Mistral is being valued at. Can they really survive?
- saubeidl 1y agoI find that American AI companies are being incredibly wasteful - they've famously been shown up by frugal Deepseek, but generally smarter architectures outweigh more raw resources.
- santiagobasulto 1y agoI think the "frugality" has been challenged by several sources, right? Nobody can prove if they were so inexpensive as they claimed.
- Alifatisk 1y agoI use Qwen Chat as my daily, it’s good and does the job very well. I have never thought about trying out Mistral, is their model good at anything? Any area it excels at? Or is it far behind all the other models?
- epolanski 1y agoQwen is good for reasoning/feedback/creative work. I use it a lot when reviewing documentation, prose and some code, it's the one I like the most. But when it comes to researching information is consistently among the worst performers in my comparisons. Generally the order is Opus 4.1 > Perplexity > Gemini Pro >> GPT 5 >> Qwen.
- powerapple 1y agoBy research you mean web search/deep research or only use knowledge embedded in llm? I use ChatGPT most of time, didn't find Claude work better for me, maybe I should switch if there is a big gap in performance.
- epolanski 1y agoDeep research, I don't trust LLMs with anything really.
- Alifatisk 1y agoI got Perplexity Pro one year for free, what makes Opus 4.1 search so good? Is it worth switching?
- epolanski 1y agoI don't know whether I can give you a conclusive answer, due to how query-dependent the results are and the lack of determinism. I really like perplexity and if you get it free it's hard to justify spending 100$/month.
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- bgwalter 1y agoIt looks like Mistral wants to collect data before people are able to try out the sacred "AI". Too bad. If all training sites that Mistral stole had done the same, Mistral would not exist. Naturally, Cloudflare is in the business, too: https://docs.mistral.ai/deployment/self-deployment/cloudflare/ https://docs.mistral.ai/deployment/self-deployment/cloudflar... mistral.ai name servers: Name Server: ivan.ns.cloudflare.com Name Server: ada.ns.cloudflare.com
- beernet 1y agoMistral recently being valued at $14 billion in the previous funding appears like a steal to me, especially compared to the Anthropic and OAI valuations. Would be interesting to compare revenues and growth rates as well to put these valuations into better perspective. Apart from that, Mistral appears to remain the only really relevant new player with European ties in the Gen AI space. Aleph Alpha is not heard of anymore and is essentially steered by the Schwarz Group now, so at least chances of an acquihire I guess.
- ljlolel 1y agoAlso Lovable
- echelon 1y agoAren't there a billion Lovable clones now that do the exact same thing? I could never get anything useful out of Lovable and was frustrated with the long editing and waiting process. I'd prefer a site builder template with dropdowns. Lovable feels like that type of product, just with an LLM facade. I don't hate AI, I just wasn't getting into the groove with Lovable.
- brulard 1y agoYeah for me Lovable was not really lovable.
- hashbig 1y agoI just couldn't love it, and frankly I don't get the hype around it. I recently found that all my use cases can be served by either: 1. A general purpose LLM chat interface with high reasoning capacity (GPT-5 thinking on web is my go to for now) 2. An agent that has unrestricted token consumption running on my machine (Claude Code with Opus and Amp are my go to for now). 3. A fine-tuned, single purpose LLM like v0 that is really good at one thing, in this case at generating a specific UI component with good design aesthetics from a wireframe in a sandbox. Everything else seems like getting the worst of all worlds.
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- pembrook 1y agoIt feels like the only path Mistral has to win is by targeting risk-averse European enterprises by waving the EU banner and having them force it on their employees. Even then, if they fall far enough behind they won't be able to do that either. Seems like a sad outcome for European tech given all the talent Europe has. It's frustrating. You watch the OpenAI launch videos and its a surprising variety of Europeans accents talking about all the value they're creating in the US, instead of back home, simply due to the more favorable business/investment policies of the US. My pet theory is, outside of the silly regulatory stance, the real reason Europe can never compete in each wave of tech (mainframe > pc > internet > mobile > social > AI > etc.) is government pension systems hoovering up all private capital and investing it into european governments (bonds) instead of european businesses (equities). Centralizing the financial assets of an entire country, subjecting it to the whims of politics thus requiring it be invested it into extremely low risk bonds instead of a larger portion in European equity indexes or even a tiny portion in venture capital has created this situation: https://i.redd.it/fxks3skmvt4e1.png https://i.redd.it/fxks3skmvt4e1.png Yes, a vast majority of VC funds lose money. Hence why it's bucketed in 'alternatives' and never a major part of pension portfolios. But the small group of winners literally create the future tax base to fund the social welfare system to continue existing (not to mention the future military tech which it turns out is useful when your neighbors get hostile). Not taking the risk means you never get the reward. If Europe put even 1-2% of their $5T in pension assets into venture...even grossly mismanaged Softbank style...I find it hard to imagine you wouldn't accidentally create a few $100+ Billion companies in 10-20 years. More important would be creating the startup ecosystem for taking the rest of the worlds capital into these ventures as a multiplier.
- Scene_Cast2 1y agoIf you think that this is sad, take a look at Canada and Cohere. I think it's not that Europe is lacking something, but rather the US and China are the only ones that are able to pull something off.
- arisAlexis 1y agoNot true, I switched to LeChat for my every day stuff just because it is good enough and I like the french twist.
- cramsession 1y agoI've never used their models, but I love that design. Kudos to the Mistral design team, the modern pixel art look with orange colors is very cool.
- bobbylarrybobby 1y agoAnd they even use Arial as their site-wide font?? Now that's certainly... a decision.
- samuel 1y agoCustom connectors are cool and a good selling point but they have to be remote (afaik there is no Le Chat Desktop) so using it with local resources it's not impossible, but hard to set up and not very practical (you need tail scale funnel or equivalent).
- kjgkjhfkjf 1y agoWhy would I want to use Mistral's MCP services instead of official MCP services from Notion, Stripe, etc.? It seems to me that the official MCP services would be strictly better, e.g. because I don't have to grant access to my resources to Mistral.
- crowcroft 1y agoHow effective are Mistral's models at this point? My perception using them is that they have comparable models to OpenAI and others when it comes to general use 'chat' tasks, but they don't match something like gpt-5 Pro or high thinking when you need something more powerful. Perhaps the problem is that you need to be competing right at the frontier, or not at all. I put Cohere in a similar bucket.
- vintagedave 1y agoI don’t know why you’re downvoted, this is an excellent question. A year ago I wanted to use and like Mistral, mostly because it was an upstart competitor to OpenAI. Yet I found its coding ability sadly lacking. I haven’t tried since. I also have seen them on the HN front page very rarely. I’m curious too how well they stand up these days.
- crowcroft 1y agoAfter testing it for myself, I find it's pretty solid for a lot of general use cases but basically breaks as soon as it needs to make multiple tool calls. A bit of a shame if they're going to launch these connectors that the model isn't suitable for them.
- Adrig 1y agoI want to love Mistral but never really used their products. What are they good enough for / great at?
- nop_slide 1y agoAll I can think about is "La Chat" from three 6 mafia
- b33j0r 1y agoThat’s a good one! Haha From a similar generation all I can think about is Homer Simpson trying to put together a BBQ grill, from only the french instructions: “Le Grille?? What the hell is Le Grille??”
- bigmattystyles 1y agoThere’s a great Belgian comic strip called ‘Le Chat’ by Phillipe Geluck. It’s for adults, it is great.
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