French AI company Mistral announced Tuesday that it had raised three billion euros ($3.5 billion) in what it described as the largest-ever European tech fundraising, valuing the startup at over 21 billion…
  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Are they planning on making a competitive model now? Because everything they have is super out of date and wasn’t really cutting edge to begin with…

    I also wonder if they realize that they need to put out a new model every month or two to stay on the frontier.

    Pointless to waste so much money on “European AI” if the Chinese are providing open-weight models that could just be hosted in Europe for European users

    • 73ms@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      25 minutes ago

      is it really pointless though, can we ensure these Chinese models aren’t biased in a way China wants them to be? Honest question.