Why “Mistral” is being discussed
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I want an intelligent model, which Mistral does not have.
by smurf9852 · Sep 8, 2026
Mistral has a huge advantage that will shine later... it's a EU-based company. We are already seeing signs of digital sovereignity everywhere. The clients will flock to them, I…
by kensai · Sep 8, 2026
The question is not, will mistral be able to create the best models (seems bloody unlikely). The question is, will mistral have enough expertise to dominate its business use-cas…
by alansaber · Sep 8, 2026
Apple and Mistral are not in the same market. Siri is a minor part of the Apple ecosystem. Fundamentally, it can call into a better LLM provided by a better company. Siri's only…
by serbuvlad · Sep 8, 2026
I love Mistral and I use it whenever I don't care about quality. For example, it's my go to model for generating git commit messages by leveraging their free codestral model. I…
by brokegrammer · Sep 8, 2026
Do they actually own it though? AFAIK they have no significant moat even in the EU (legal or competitive) and given the current accessibility to non-SOTA AI (open weight models…
by wraptile · Sep 8, 2026
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