4 ms·
Mistral needs to abandon their Everything-stral branding. Getting kind of lame. "Shieldstral" is an awkward and bad name
by petcat 2mo ago
Mistral needs to abandon their Everything-stral branding. Getting kind of lame.
"Shieldstral" is an awkward and bad name
- braiamp 2mo agoThat naming only works if you commit to the bit even when it doesn't make sense. That builds branding.
- simlevesque 2mo agoPeople complain when a product use a familiar name that might collide and there's also people complaining when they invent new words altogether. Naming things is hard.
- cyanregiment 2mo agoWas this one the last stral for you? The stral the broke the camel's back?
- whythismatters 2mo agoThe shortest stral has been pulled for you
- fooofw 2mo agoIt seems like you're just clutching at strals now
- vardalab 2mo agoSays who? I kind of like it.
- ranger_danger 2mo agoThere can be other valid perspectives than your own
- bee_rider 2mo agoTheir web chat UI seems to be called “Vibe.” I think? I’m not sure if that’s the name of the product or just what they decided to label it in the browser. I wonder if -strap is just what they call the actual models, which are meant to be run “under the hood” anyway, so not really part of the branding. But I wish they could commit to the bit fully and call everything -stral. It’s quirky and self aware to give your products silly names.
- Fnoord 2mo agoArgue about taste. At least it is more original than OpenAI (haha, 'open') who started as non-profit and then pulled an Infantino. The Le Chat logo is also cool retro :) On general purpose LLMs, and vibe coding, Mistral lags behind. But I find the targeted LMs much more interesting.