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Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Re: Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Post by kergonath »

linkregister wrote: post #16
maelito wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment is ridiculous. France's economy is bigger than 90 % of "unregulated" countries. European regulations help protect from USA's tech monopolies. French labor laws and social security and state-funded scientific schools helped build one of the most competent international AI scientist generation. All of europe got crushed by the US on the domain of internet. "Regulated" or not.

Indeed, French labor laws and their downstream effects have pushed the most talented French researchers to US-based frontier labs, thus building one of the most competent cohorts of international AI scientists.

This has more to do with the humongous amounts of money sloshing around in VC funds and the disproportionate importance of the US in the global financial markets. They just followed the money. Those who are successful in securing funding then tend to come back eventually.

Re: Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Post by pezgrande »

aborsy wrote: post #11

It’s interesting that a French company can compete at international level to some extent, given the regulations, labor laws and generally the business unfriendly environment. I suspect they capitalize on the preference of European governments to use EU products, but might be wrong.

I have yet to see someone recommending Mistral for anything tbh.

Re: Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Post by smt88 »

bradley13 wrote: post #9

I'm glad Mistral is doing well, but... I am so tired of M&A. Buy instead of competing or - heaven forfend - cooperating.

The reason we have so much M&A is that large companies can’t really innovate, especially when they’re publicly traded and have shareholders who hate risk-taking

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Post by vrganj »

retinaros wrote: post #19
olivermuty wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you really believe this? Lol Could you please elaborate what labour law drives the labour out of france?

Taxation, admin hell, government involvement led by highly uncompetent unelected people that got to make decision on the sovereignty and future of Companies. The only chance for mistral is to escape the grasp of france and its low iq visionless political “elites” or else theyll endup like dailymotion. Building a company in france and europe is hell even mistral ceo said this a few days ago in front of french official…

As somebody who's built a company in Europe, I don't know what you're talking about. I suspect you don't, either.

Re: Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Post by tormeh »

smt88 wrote: post #23
bradley13 wrote: post #9

I'm glad Mistral is doing well, but... I am so tired of M&A. Buy instead of competing or - heaven forfend - cooperating.

The reason we have so much M&A is that large companies can’t really innovate, especially when they’re publicly traded and have shareholders who hate risk-taking

Mistral is not large, though.

Re: Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Post by phillc73 »

pezgrande wrote: post #22
aborsy wrote: post #11

It’s interesting that a French company can compete at international level to some extent, given the regulations, labor laws and generally the business unfriendly environment. I suspect they capitalize on the preference of European governments to use EU products, but might be wrong.

I have yet to see someone recommending Mistral for anything tbh.

Their Voxtral[1] speech models are really good.

[1] https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral

Re: Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

SilverElfin wrote: post #3

I was skeptical when I saw the headline. And I still am. But AI for manufacturing and industry seems like a good way to differentiate and focus on a vertical that others are ignoring. What I am curious about is what has Emmi actually built? Who uses it? I was hoping to see something like a demo on the website but couldn’t find anything concrete.

I assume it's more a talent acquisition as the company only exists for 18 months or so and you can't acquire enterprise customers that quickly, not even as an AI vendor.
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