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Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by ryeguy_24 » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC

How many proprietary use cases truly need pre-training or even fine-tuning as opposed to RAG approach? And at what point does it make sense to pre-train/fine tune? Curious.

Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by baby » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 1:54 AM UTC

ryeguy_24 wrote: post #11

How many proprietary use cases truly need pre-training or even fine-tuning as opposed to RAG approach? And at what point does it make sense to pre-train/fine tune? Curious.

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Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by charcircuit » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 1:56 AM UTC

baby wrote: post #12

ryeguy_24 wrote: post #11

How many proprietary use cases truly need pre-training or even fine-tuning as opposed to RAG approach? And at what point does it make sense to pre-train/fine tune? Curious.

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Using tools and skills to retrieve data or files is anything but dead.

Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by CharlesW » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 1:57 AM UTC

baby wrote: post #12

ryeguy_24 wrote: post #11

How many proprietary use cases truly need pre-training or even fine-tuning as opposed to RAG approach? And at what point does it make sense to pre-train/fine tune? Curious.

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Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by codance » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 1:58 AM UTC

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Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by bigyabai » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 2:01 AM UTC

baby wrote: post #12

ryeguy_24 wrote: post #11

How many proprietary use cases truly need pre-training or even fine-tuning as opposed to RAG approach? And at what point does it make sense to pre-train/fine tune? Curious.

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In what, X's hype circles? Embeddings are used in production constantly.

Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by loeg » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 2:01 AM UTC

baby wrote: post #12

ryeguy_24 wrote: post #11

How many proprietary use cases truly need pre-training or even fine-tuning as opposed to RAG approach? And at what point does it make sense to pre-train/fine tune? Curious.

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Is it??

Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by strongly-typed » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 2:05 AM UTC

CharlesW wrote: post #14

baby wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Wait, what does NFTs have to do with RAG?

Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by LoganDark » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 2:12 AM UTC

strongly-typed wrote: post #18

CharlesW wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Wait, what does NFTs have to do with RAG?

Nothing, I think they're just pointing out a seeming lack of awareness of what really is or isn't dead.

Re: Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Post by panarky » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

strongly-typed wrote: post #18

CharlesW wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Wait, what does NFTs have to do with RAG?

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