Benchmarks suggest this model loses to Deepseek-R1 in every one-shot comparison. Considering they were likely not even pitting it against the newer R1 version (no mention of that in the article) and at more than double the cost, this looks like the best AI company in the EU is struggling to keep up with the state-of-the-art.
"EU is leading in regulation", they say. I don't know what they are thinking.
This is why I want to move to the EU. I don’t care if companies aren’t coddled there. I want to live where people are the first priority.
probably some silly thing like "people should have more rights and protections"
EU regulation is often "you can not have the cool thing" not "the cool thing must be operated equitably". I think they are more interested in protecting old money than in protecting people.
EU never just states "you can not have the cool thing". Please provide an example if you disagree.
It is very hard to create policies and legislation that protects consumers, workers and privacy while also giving enough liberties for innovation. These are difficult but important trade-offs.
I'm glad there is diversity in cultures and values between the US, EU and Asia.
Benchmarks suggest this model loses to Deepseek-R1 in every one-shot comparison. Considering they were likely not even pitting it against the newer R1 version (no mention of that in the article) and at more than double the cost, this looks like the best AI company in the EU is struggling to keep up with the state-of-the-art.
Europe isn't going to catch up in tech as long as its market is open to US tech giants. Tech doesn't have marginal costs, so you want to have one of it in one place and sell it everywhere and when the infra and talent is already in US, EU tech is destined to do niche products. UK has a bit of it, France has some and that's it. The only viable alternatives are countries who have issues with US and that is China and Ru…
The problem is, CONSUMER level tech
The EU is doing a lot of enterprise level shit and it's great
The biggest company in Europe sells B2B software (SAP)
Their paper https://mistral.ai/static/research/magistral.pdf is also cool! They edited GRPO via: 1. Removed KL Divergence 2. Normalize by total length (Dr. GRPO style) 3. Minibatch normalization for advantages 4. Relaxing trust region
> Removed KL Divergence Wait, how are they computing the loss?
And what would be the reason? I am genuinely interested. Also, are there viable not "consumer" AI companies here? Only Mistral seems to train foundation models, and good for them, however, as of now they are absolutely not SOTA.
Money. No, really - EU doesn't have the VCs and the megacorps. People laugh at EU sponsoring projects, but there is no private money to sponsor them. There are plenty of US companies with sites in the EU though, so you have people working the problems, but no branding.
Ok, just a quick question… why does Europe not have the money actual/people?
Money. No, really - EU doesn't have the VCs and the megacorps. People laugh at EU sponsoring projects, but there is no private money to sponsor them. There are plenty of US companies with sites in the EU though, so you have people working the problems, but no branding.
Ok, just a quick question… why does Europe not have the money actual/people?
edit: the parent has since edited out the flamebait.
Maybe, or maybe when silicon valley was busy growing exponentially Europe was still picking itself up from the mess of ww2.
Trying to blame a single reason is futile, naive and childish.
Europe isn't going to catch up in tech as long as its market is open to US tech giants. Tech doesn't have marginal costs, so you want to have one of it in one place and sell it everywhere and when the infra and talent is already in US, EU tech is destined to do niche products. UK has a bit of it, France has some and that's it. The only viable alternatives are countries who have issues with US and that is China and Ru…
The problem is, CONSUMER level tech The EU is doing a lot of enterprise level shit and it's great The biggest company in Europe sells B2B software (SAP)
One swallow does not make a summer, all the major platforms are American and that's where Europe lags. I agree that Europe does have some great tech but they are all niche. Europe also have some great consumer tech products but they are all dependent on American platforms. For example some of the best games are French, Polish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian etc. but they all depend on Steam or Apple App Store and have to go by their rules and pay them a significant commission.
A few days after Apple's "The illusion of Reasoning". I wonder if this is the same again. Anyone runs Tower of Hanoi?
That paper was flawed in many ways, but it had a catchy name so lots of 'fluencers and media pounced on it and slopped some content based on the title alone. Chances are it will be relegated to the blooper section of LLM papers, just like that "training on LLM outputs leads to model collapse" paper was...
Sorry this has nothing to do with the point you're making but I've literally never seen anyone use the word 'fluencers in place of influencers lol.
Money. No, really - EU doesn't have the VCs and the megacorps. People laugh at EU sponsoring projects, but there is no private money to sponsor them. There are plenty of US companies with sites in the EU though, so you have people working the problems, but no branding.
Ok, just a quick question… why does Europe not have the money actual/people?
Quick questions don’t always have quick answers.
Moneywise, the US does have the good old Exorbitant Privilege to lean on.