Why “Mistral” is being discussed
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> When Apple is not racing for the frontier it's a strategy, but when it's Mistral it's a mistake. Ah, yes, it is really baffling that Mistral, a new European AI startup, is hel…
by wiseowise · Sep 9, 2026
Distillation is so easy, so why is Google and Meta playing catch up with worse models than many Chinese labs? I mean, they could distill from the Chinese modles which are free?…
by segmondy · Sep 9, 2026
There are a bunch of Europeans working in the top labs abroad. We do not lack any know how, we only lack the raw amount of capital invested in doing private research, since our…
by alberto467 · Sep 8, 2026
not the good jobs. not the jobs that were comparing to mistral level equivalents in the US. i haven’t had metered PTO since 2015 and everyone i know is the same
by foolfoolz · Sep 8, 2026
I don't think any Mistral model can match an open 30B-sized Qwen from a year ago, so right now they're not really a competitive alternative to anything at all. Except Voxtral pe…
by moffkalast · Sep 8, 2026
> Mistral is the only AI company in the world building the full stack required to answer that question: open-weight models, the infrastructure and the compute capacity they run…
by max-privatevoid · Sep 8, 2026
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