Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/

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sznio•48m ago

> Existing investors a16z

I don't trust anything the antichrist invests in

0x20cowboy•41m ago

Is that who Thiel is talking about? I thought it was just a bible thing.

hallgrim•34m ago

If you follow the ideology of the Silicon Valley billionaire types, based around Ayn Rand (eg “Atlas Shrugged”) and Curtis Yarvin, as well as what Thiel himself has said over the years, the Antichrist is governmental institutions, seen as the inhibitors of progress. I am not joking btw.

shrubby•31m ago

https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_fo...

Here's a nice summary. Haven't read the book yet though it's on my list.

ghurtado•14m ago

Ok, so once again South Park sounds completely deranged when they let reality do the writing.

I miss when "reality is stranger than fiction" was a cool phrase because it didn't happen all the time.

vlyan•13m ago

to be fair, there is no plausible explanation for Mistral's fall into irrelevance other than having to deal with regulatory burden. US and CN labs get to feed their models all the data in the world while Mistral has to comply with Let's-Smother-The-AI-Baby-In-The-Crib-To-Maybe-Prevent-It-From-Maybe-Becoming-A-Criminal Act that EU nepo babies had expedited as soon as AI became the current thing.

vintagedave•4m ago

Other than investment, such as this news?

I know AI has more regulations here in the EU, but what I don't see clearly explained is what impact that has on pure research: creating new comparable models. So I'm suspicious that it's really impactful. On market deployment, maybe - that's where regulations lie. On internal company research?

bayarearefugee•26m ago

I think you're confused here.

a16z is Humpty Dumpty and Temu Lex Luthor.

The antichrist is Greta Thunberg.

speedgoose•9m ago

I’m no expert in religion, but wouldn’t Jesus speech be more on the Greta side if he came back to earth today? By like a very very wide margin?

ReptileMan•6m ago

He throwed the moneychangers out of the temple - so I guess he had a short temper for stupid frauds.

Frieren•40m ago

This is why wealth should be less concentrated. A few people has their hands in all businesses and that will end badly.

Taxation is not just about paying for the costs of the country, it is also about making sure that nobody has enough power to subjugate the will of the people. Monopolies, billionaires, the accumulation of such power is making the average citizen powerless. And you can feel it.

shrubby•33m ago

The power is in the hands of a few people obsessed or possessed. Gambling addiction, narcissism, power hunger.

Taxation will not solve this before the global society collapses so the question is whether we figure out a way to level the power.

This is not evil, but a trait of human nature of corruption or addiction to power.

maxrev17•29m ago

Yeah it’s ’more more more’. Seems a very nature based behaviour. We need a restraint or predator to slow us off!

0x20cowboy•37m ago

Très bien! C’est parti!

steinvakt2•27m ago

That’s great, but meanwhile American competitors are worth… trillions?

danmaz74•23m ago

At this stage it's not about how much it's worth, but how much investment is required to reach their goals.

hobofan•23m ago

Are they, though? I would say, let's find out when the IPO settles, but then again the market also sustains a incredibly crazy valuation for Tesla.

steinvakt2•19m ago

If not, I’m buying stocks

nicce•12m ago

Better to buy GPUs and RAM with current rate

shikck200•15m ago

Nah. They are not, everyone is losing money, and just staying alive from gov subsidies. A claude PRO license is 20 usd/month, and for it to be profitable it should be somewhere around 200-300/month.

The bubble is going to burst soon.

Daunk•15m ago

keel-control•25m ago

I get worried when thinking about Mistral because they make mediocre models and I don't think they will be able to defeat their competition.

ludvigk•20m ago

Same here. And I doubt 3B EUR will do anything (remember the >$100B investment round that OpenAI got?)

In the EU it seems we are very much at risk of being cut off from frontier AI if the US government should decide to do so.

loehnsberg•19m ago

Maybe true for frontier LLM, but there's plenty of space in the niches. For example, I think their TTS/STT models are pretty good, speaking from personal experience.

aurareturn•3m ago

Is there money in niche models?

alastairr•16m ago

That may be true, but there's a non zero chance that frontier AI becomes a controlled export, and that 'local' production becomes a prudent play.

v3ss0n•18m ago

No amount of $ would improve mistral if they cant fix fundamental flaws. They aren't even on par with chinese models a year ago.

w4yai•17m ago

I actually believe the amount of $ is what was missing for them to improve their fundamental flaws. They're a very competent team, but were working with a tiny fraction of the budget of US/China teams.

mosselman•16m ago

They've started hosting GLM-5.2, that should be very telling of their capabilities at the moment. Hopefully the investment will allow them to hire the right people to become competitive.

Raed667•8m ago

can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?

chronic7304•5m ago

> can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?

Culture.

In terms of output, EU working culture is inferior to American/Chinese working culture.

Work life balance is irrelevant for frontier/sovereign AI.

alansaber•3m ago

Holy oversimplification. Do you get all your information from the internet?

lain98•15m ago

I've been applying to jobs at Mistral, just straight rejects.

Not even a phone call :(

elvennn•5m ago

I applied, I had multiple interviews, I got reject because I was bad during them.

Anyway, the interview process was so janky it decreased my confidence in their success.

Morkeeth•13m ago

Europes last chance

throwa356262•9m ago

I don't know.

The moat doesn't seem to exist. Probably safer to stay out of the race for now.

CerebralCoding•12m ago

Too bad Mistral fucking sucks

donmb•7m ago

Mistral is not that bad as the comments here suggest. I am not using it as a frontier model but with simple RAG tasks and its doing great. Also OCR is pretty decent. It's a positive development that Europe is at least trying. Alternative would be: do nothing.

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