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Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

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Re: Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

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Post by the_clarence »

_pdp_ wrote: post #115
the_clarence wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tbh I think the one general model approach is winning. People don't want to figure out which model is better at what unless its for a very specific task.

IMHO people want to interact with agents that do things not with models that chat. And agents by definition are specialised which means a specific model and Mistral might not be good for all types of tasks just like the top of line models are not always for everything.

Agents are specialized via prompts and MCP now, and more and more rarely by model

Re: Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

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Post by the_clarence »

sschueller wrote: post #95
the_clarence wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tbh I think the one general model approach is winning. People don't want to figure out which model is better at what unless its for a very specific task.

Couldn't you could place a very light weight model in front to figure out which model to use?

My guess is that this is basically what AI providers are slowly moving to. And this is what models seem to be doing underneath the surface as well now with Mixture of Experts (MoE).

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Post by ATechGuy »

crimsoneer wrote: post #92
distances wrote: post #18

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I also kind of don't understand how it seems everyone is using AI for coding. I haven't had a client yet which would have approved any external AI usage. So I basically use them as search engines on steroids, but code can't go directly in or out.

Are your clients not on AWS/Azure/GCP? They all offer private LLMs out of the box now.

That was my question too.

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Post by fennecbutt »

jamesblonde wrote: post #157
tigroferoce wrote: post #123

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My two cents, as European, is that since we are more and more asking to LLMs for information, it wouldn't be wise to let a foreign country, not even truly democratic, to choose the information we get.

The Chinese don't get any of information if we use self-hosted DeepSeek or Qwen. They are open-source. You can run them in an air-gapped environment that can't phone home.

But their models are gimped by bad censoring. At least I can still ask chatgpt how many innocent civilians America has bombed.

Re: Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

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Post by beernet »

retinaros wrote: post #148
beernet wrote: post #124

Mistral really became what all the other over-hyped EU AI start-ups / collectives (Stability, Eleuther, Aleph Alpha, Nyonic, possibly Black Forest Labs, government-funded collaborations, ...) failed to achieve, although many of them existed way before Mistral. Congrats to them, great work.

what did they achieve exactly?

Signs of market traction and executing on product development. All other mentioned companies never made it there.
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