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> and a challenger to OpenAI Big claim. Apart from Mistral OCR, I didn't find any of their models remotely useful. They do have a chance to become sole AI pro
by Oras 5mo ago
> and a challenger to OpenAI
Big claim. Apart from Mistral OCR, I didn't find any of their models remotely useful.
They do have a chance to become sole AI provider for France as French are trying to break from US tech, not because their product is useful.
Sounds like a cry to raise more money, which is inline with their initial pitch [0]
[0] https://sifted.eu/articles/pitch-deck-mistral https://sifted.eu/articles/pitch-deck-mistral
- jstummbillig 5mo agoIt seems fairly plausible that they will become useful. I would not consider coding requiring vastly better AI models than the best we have today. The more interesting question is what advantages excess intelligence provides in the future more generally (warfare, system management, etc)
- Oras 5mo ago> fairly plausible Based on what? is that a feeling or based on evidence?
- jstummbillig 5mo agoThe trajectory all models are taking, while software development requirements continue to stay fairly level – at least I don't see why they wouldn't. We will still mostly need reliable, boring software. I don't see why Mistral would stop getting better. It will, just more slowly. Eventually it will be good enough, and continue to be good enough.
- olejorgenb 5mo agoTheir transcription (STT) models are good IMO
- sometimelurker 5mo ago> ... didn't find any of their models remotely useful. I daily drive Ministral-3-3B-Reasoning, getting a nice 70 tok/s on my GPU. its actually much faster than Google/DDG searches and I use it a ton when coding to check methods and remember ways to implement things. Its better than the qwen stuff of the same size because its not filled with ccp bs.
- kkzz99 5mo ago>because its not filled with ccp bs You do know that mistral distilled from deepseek, yeah?
- tensor 5mo agoFunny, I use them every day and find their models immensely useful. I prefer using technology from democratic countries. And no, I'm not French.