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The chinese did it better, mistral is alive thanks to regulations.
by mainecoder 2mo ago
The chinese did it better, mistral is alive thanks to regulations.
- rtaylorgarlock 2mo agoI've been a bit more careful about complaining about regulations broadly due to competitive advantage, e.g. ITAR
- mangecoeur 2mo agoi.e. it's one AI company that's basically guaranteed to never fail since it has a market niche guaranteed by European companies and governments.
- petcat 2mo agoWhich is also why their most recent model "Shieldstral" does nothing except monitor and moderate internet content. After stuff like Chat Control I think they're obviously seeing a big demand for this kind of "internet safety" technology in Europe.
- gregorygoc 2mo agoI don’t think any European AI model can reach the experience and productivity of average NSA/CIA analyst.
- maelito 2mo agoNo it's the other way round : the Chinese do better thanks to regulations : massive amounts of money from Big tech and public money.
- Bombthecat 2mo agoYeah, I'm not sending personal bills etc to china. No thanks
- gkbrk 2mo agoIt's still open-weight models that you can download and run locally. You don't need to send anything to China.
- sajithdilshan 2mo agoand you trust the french?
- MrDrMcCoy 2mo agoI trust them more than the Americans and Chinese. Genuinely rooting for them to close the gap.
- sajithdilshan 2mo agoGood luck with that. Mistral is never going to produce a frontier model. Their business model is to rely on the EU regulations and cater to the bureaucracy. I won't be surprised if their next model is specialized on generating laws/regulations for EU lawmakers so they can sell it to EU. That way their business would survive for the next 5-10 years till EU implodes.
- MrDrMcCoy 2mo agoYour disdain for the EU is genuinely puzzling to me.
- rdm_blackhole 2mo agoWhy is someone critiquing the EU such an affront to you? Is the EU above reproach for some reason?
- MrDrMcCoy 2mo agoCertainly not above reproach, and there are reasons to have beef with them (I know I do). That said, they're doing some aspects of modern democracy better than the US, and we really ought to borrow each other's best ideas.
- t3hTao 2mo ago[dead]
- eloisant 2mo agoIt's not regulations, it's European companies being (legitimately) worried about their data sovereignty if they use US or Chinese AI providers.