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Except there's no such thing as the "European model" similar how Europe is not a country. Mistral is mostly French and tends to have mostly French speaking cus
by joe_mamba 5mo ago
Except there's no such thing as the "European model" similar how Europe is not a country.
Mistral is mostly French and tends to have mostly French speaking customers, like BNP PAribas in Belgium. Germany will want its own domestic AI champions, maybe in partnership with Switzerland and Austria, similar to how Denmark already has invested in LLMs focused on the Nordic languages with money from Norway.
The biggest mistake is treating Europe like a single homogenous country/market.
- simonw 5mo agoThe original question was "Yeah but why use mistral on premises instead of Qwen?". I think you and I agree on the answer. I for one would love to see more country-specific models. There was a story here the other day about Norway’s National Library developing a LLM specialized in Norwegian: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770
- sisve 5mo ago>Similar to how Denmark already has invested in LLMs focused on the Nordic languages with money from Norway. Would love to know more. Do you have a source on this?
- phillc73 5mo agoMistral just acquired Emmi AI, an Austrian startup. German and French speaking together at last. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197995
- joe_mamba 5mo agoWas EMI specialized in the German language LLMs? Or is it that they're an Austrian lab?
- phillc73 5mo agoEmmi is an Austrian lab specialising in physics AI applications. Mistral isn’t specialising in French language LLMs either. The point was that across different European countries and languages there are collaborations and M&A happening.