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Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the author was smart, they left the name out on purpose so people would click to check if it was mistral. You saved me that click.

What is mistral

French LLM company, founded by former meta engineer + a former French minister for good political leverage, they made the news after they raised €105M on a slide deck last June. They are quite close to the state of the art in terms of LLMs, both closed and open weights.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#15

Not Mistral, for anyone else that reads the comments first.

If the author was smart, they left the name out on purpose so people would click to check if it was mistral. You saved me that click.

Does clickbait still work? I feel like I am savvy to it but maybe it’s an illusion ha

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Do they have to disclose how much they paid?

As a rule of thumb, not if immaterial to their financials, which in often the case for Apple given their size and M&A strategy (they rarely go for any sizeable acquisitions) Sometimes you can find a reference to it in the buyer's the next quarterly (10-Q) or annual (10-K) filing, but since again this is small, Apple will likely only mention it in passing and any sum paid will either be missing or lumped with a bunch…

Thanks for the explanation. I figured it should appear in their quarterly and annual filing as u said.

Since the startup is quite young I would also agree Apple could be interested in their talent.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the author was smart, they left the name out on purpose so people would click to check if it was mistral. You saved me that click.

Does clickbait still work? I feel like I am savvy to it but maybe it’s an illusion ha

I clicked to see if it was Mistral, so yep, it works.
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