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Political landscape of the US right now will change in few years like it has been changing for the last 250 years. USA does not equate to its current political
by sajithdilshan 5mo ago
Political landscape of the US right now will change in few years like it has been changing for the last 250 years. USA does not equate to its current political situation. But EU would keep on rotting from inside and I would eat my hat if Mistral doesn’t go out of business in next 5 years
- HDThoreaun 5mo agoThere will always be a place for domestically sourced AI I think. Even if Mistral models suck theyll get enough defense revenue that they wont go out of business
- sajithdilshan 5mo agoSums up EU in a nutshell, if it cannot compete in the open market, fund it by tax payers money (defence budgets are funded by tax payers money)
- HDThoreaun 5mo agoI mean US is doing the same thing with intel so not like this is EU exclusive
- sajithdilshan 5mo agoYou cannot be seriously comparing Mistral to Intel. Intel might be falling behind right now, but they were pioneers in 90s and 2000s. When has Mistral ever been a pioneer on anything?
- mnewme 5mo agoActually at MoE. Though Deepseek took that approach and improved it by a lot.
- mnewme 5mo agoThey do in many other areas. Look at ASML or look at chemicals
- noddybear 5mo agoIt’s an interesting contrast that you claim that the USA does not equate to its current political situation, whereas conversely the EU is ‘rotting’ from the inside. Do you think this is a balanced and reasonable claim?
- sajithdilshan 5mo agoit is a reasonable claim. Trump would be gone in few years and the constitution guarantees it. What does EU has? more bureaucrats? EU doesn't even has a constitution and yet it interfere with the politics of sovereign nations till they bend the knee to Brussels
- lava_pidgeon 5mo agoThere is a constant change in politicians and parties and views among people (hello 2022!) about policy topics inside the EU all the time. Do you seriously think politics in the EU stays the same?
- sajithdilshan 5mo agoIt absolutely has. It's always more regulation, more bureaucracy and more red tapes. They are just creating more barriers to keep themselves employed and to expand the reach of their authority.
- mnewme 5mo agoActually right now the reverse is happening. GDPR will become easier there is simplification coming, there will be less national goldplating
- sajithdilshan 5mo agoThey have been discussing that for years, but still nothing happened. At the rate of the bureaucracy it would take few more years to even draft the laws to ease GDPR
- weakened_malloc 5mo ago> I would eat my hat if Mistral doesn’t go out of business in next 5 years Hope you're hungry. The Mistral are going to what most great European companies are good at - regulatory arbitrage. They're going to insert themselves everywhere within EU (French govt, etc) and extract value that way whilst delivering subpar services to what open weight Chinese models can deliver. Honestly they'll probably be profitable before most other AI providers are simply because there's very little pressure to improve models.
- sajithdilshan 5mo agoIt could be true that French government might use it, but I hardly think Germans or Italians or any other government would trust Mistral or use it. Even though they are part of EU, they still don’t trust each other completely when it comes to national security and sharing intelligence. I can easily imagine BND fine tuning some Chinese model or still relying on American models