That’s great, but meanwhile American competitors are worth… trillions?
*losing trillions
Anthropic is thought to be cash flow positive now.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that who Thiel is talking about? I thought it was just a bible thing.
I think you're confused here. a16z is Humpty Dumpty and Temu Lex Luthor. The antichrist is Greta Thunberg.
I’m no expert in religion, but wouldn’t Jesus speech be more on the Greta side if he came back to earth today? By like a very very wide margin?
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#33Europes last chance
I don't know.
The moat doesn't seem to exist. Probably safer to stay out of the race for now.
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#34No amount of $ would improve mistral if they cant fix fundamental flaws. They aren't even on par with chinese models a year ago.
can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?
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#35Mistral is not that bad as the comments here suggest. I am not using it as a frontier model but with simple RAG tasks and its doing great. Also OCR is pretty decent. It's a positive development that Europe is at least trying. Alternative would be: do nothing.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're confused here. a16z is Humpty Dumpty and Temu Lex Luthor. The antichrist is Greta Thunberg.
I’m no expert in religion, but wouldn’t Jesus speech be more on the Greta side if he came back to earth today? By like a very very wide margin?
He throwed the moneychangers out of the temple - so I guess he had a short temper for stupid frauds.
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#37I've been applying to jobs at Mistral, just straight rejects. Not even a phone call :(
I applied, I had multiple interviews, I got reject because I was bad during them.
Anyway, the interview process was so janky it decreased my confidence in their success.
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#38No amount of $ would improve mistral if they cant fix fundamental flaws. They aren't even on par with chinese models a year ago.
There is nothing exciting about mistral but they're the only european ai lab i've even heard off (jeppa doesn't count)
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#39No amount of $ would improve mistral if they cant fix fundamental flaws. They aren't even on par with chinese models a year ago.
can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?
> can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?
Culture.
In terms of output, EU working culture is inferior to American/Chinese working culture.
Work life balance is irrelevant for frontier/sovereign AI.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you follow the ideology of the Silicon Valley billionaire types, based around Ayn Rand (eg “Atlas Shrugged”) and Curtis Yarvin, as well as what Thiel himself has said over the years, the Antichrist is governmental institutions, seen as the inhibitors of progress. I am not joking btw.
to be fair, there is no plausible explanation for Mistral's fall into irrelevance other than having to deal with regulatory burden. US and CN labs get to feed their models all the data in the world while Mistral has to comply with Let's-Smother-The-AI-Baby-In-The-Crib-To-Maybe-Prevent-It-From-Maybe-Becoming-A-Criminal Act that EU nepo babies had expedited as soon as AI became the current thing. Mistral had open-weigh…
Other than investment, such as this news?
I know AI has more regulations here in the EU, but what I don't see clearly explained is what impact that has on pure research: creating new comparable models. So I'm suspicious that it's really impactful. On market deployment, maybe - that's where regulations lie. On internal company research?