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Leanstral 1.5

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Re: Leanstral 1.5

#51

Post by MrToadMan »

criticalfault wrote: post #47
Grimblewald wrote: post #33

Got curious, sign up, add money to account, try to use. Can't, it's a labs model. Fine, let's enable labs. Can't, unspecified error. Fine, lets contact customer support as instructed, can't no customer support, just a half-assed FAQ, that seems vibe-coded and searched poorly, totally irrelevant answers coming up for all queries tried. Then it hit me: If AI makes good customer support, then why does no AI company use…

These guys don't answer emails. Same for qwant. Sample of two, but I'm assuming french companies don't like to being contacted n English.

If only they had access to a world class translation system, they could auto translate between languages effortlessly :)

Re: Leanstral 1.5

#52

Post by begleri »

Grimblewald wrote: post #33

Got curious, sign up, add money to account, try to use. Can't, it's a labs model. Fine, let's enable labs. Can't, unspecified error. Fine, lets contact customer support as instructed, can't no customer support, just a half-assed FAQ, that seems vibe-coded and searched poorly, totally irrelevant answers coming up for all queries tried. Then it hit me: If AI makes good customer support, then why does no AI company use…

That's frustrating and odd because I can use the model for free (have never connected any form of payment)

Re: Leanstral 1.5

#53

Post by adev_ »

tjwebbnorfolk wrote: post #23
adev_ wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Your reason can't be cost because there are superior models that are cheaper than Mistral models Nope. This is not my experience. Public pricing in token/$ is only part of the equation. Mistral tooling to consume significantly less tokens-per-given-task than the Anthropic ones. My bills currently reflects that.

I think other commenter is talking about smaller/cheaper models like Qwen that outperform mistral on just about every metric

I played with Qwen few months ago, I do prefer Mistral vibe for everyday usage (significantly faster if not self hosted).

Re: Leanstral 1.5

#54

Post by beernet »

This went to market horribly (if you can even call it that), just look at the comments. Mistral played themselves big time over the past ~18 months. Non-competitive products and models combined with bad marketing and GTM...Oh Europe

Re: Leanstral 1.5

#55

Post by helloplanets »

Tangential, but I'm pretty sad about EU having absolutely nothing in the actual SotA LLM market. Especially given the recent events of US completely restricting the actual SotA models.

Has this been just pure lack of funding and infra?

Re: Leanstral 1.5

#56

Post by ciefa »

helloplanets wrote: post #55

Tangential, but I'm pretty sad about EU having absolutely nothing in the actual SotA LLM market. Especially given the recent events of US completely restricting the actual SotA models. Has this been just pure lack of funding and infra?

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Re: Leanstral 1.5

#57

Post by vlian2088 »

helloplanets wrote: post #55

Tangential, but I'm pretty sad about EU having absolutely nothing in the actual SotA LLM market. Especially given the recent events of US completely restricting the actual SotA models. Has this been just pure lack of funding and infra?

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Re: Leanstral 1.5

#60

Post by GTP »

MrToadMan wrote: post #51
criticalfault wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These guys don't answer emails. Same for qwant. Sample of two, but I'm assuming french companies don't like to being contacted n English.

If only they had access to a world class translation system, they could auto translate between languages effortlessly :)

They're just offended by people not using their product :D
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