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I think it’s important to note that, at least for now, Mistral uses the big American cloud providers for inference [0]. [0] https://trust.mistral.ai/subprocess
by s3tt3mbr1n1 5mo ago
I think it’s important to note that, at least for now, Mistral uses the big American cloud providers for inference [0].
[0] https://trust.mistral.ai/subprocessors https://trust.mistral.ai/subprocessors
- ChemSpider 5mo agoYes and they are open about it. That is why they are building their own data centers in Paris and other places.
- s3tt3mbr1n1 5mo agoThat’s true, but as their model quality is behind Kimi K2.6 or Deepseek v4, I believe it makes more sense to consume those Chinese models from a European hosting company like Scaleway, than to consume Mistral’s models hosted on US cloud providers, except if you see that Mistral subscription as a kind of investment into Mistral for them to buy infra in the future. That is, if your goal is to “consume” AI on European soil.
- pixel_popping 5mo agoBehind Deepseek R1 by far, they are at least 1 year late in model's performance.