For everyone not speaking French: le means “the” so this is “Mistral the chat” or maybe “The Mistral Chat”. My knowledge of French is limited but it feels right to immediately get ahead of any misunderstandings here for English speakers
Le mans?
Mistral Le Chat
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#32Very excited for them. Tried it and works quite well. Very evident that each of the foundational model developers need to offer a free chat(till now) interface for RLHF/DPO to improve their models. It's costly for them to run servers, but even higher opportunity cost if they don't do this and offer a free service. Intuitively, I think GPT-4 was very good with various questions because they used the early data from Ch…
OpenAI also had years "flying under the radar" training on API requests
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally make an exception for ChatGPT for the delightful phonetical prononciation that translates to "cat I did fart"
Cat, I did fart loudly. (chat, j'ai pété fort. ChatGPT4).
chatte, which translates to pussy, is a better homophone. Also funnier but less sfw
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#34Very excited for them. Tried it and works quite well. Very evident that each of the foundational model developers need to offer a free chat(till now) interface for RLHF/DPO to improve their models. It's costly for them to run servers, but even higher opportunity cost if they don't do this and offer a free service. Intuitively, I think GPT-4 was very good with various questions because they used the early data from Ch…
OpenAI also had years "flying under the radar" training on API requests
They don't train on API requests
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many french will call a chat app a "chat" not with the french pronunciation.
True, but here, the insistence on using "le" (instead of just "Mistral Chat"), the "Adoptez le Chat" (adopt the cat) wording and if you go further, the little cat head inside the "M" logo makes the pun very obvious.
It's a way of using the English term "chat" while using the typically French article "Le".
It reminds me of old American cartoons that abused the article "Le" to emphasize the French aspect of a character or place.
The Mistral products "La Plateforme" and "Le Chat" follow this principle.
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#36For everyone not speaking French: le means “the” so this is “Mistral the chat” or maybe “The Mistral Chat”. My knowledge of French is limited but it feels right to immediately get ahead of any misunderstandings here for English speakers
I think “le”/“la” is one of those French words most (well-)educated English speakers already know. English uses French phrases containing it anyway (e.g. avant la lettre)
I know almost zero Spanish, but I know what “el” means. And I know almost zero Arabic, but I know “al-“ and “ibn”. I think that level of (extremely minimal) knowledge of Spanish and Arabic is rather common among Anglophones; and “le”/“la”/“un”/“de”/etc is the same thing for French
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#37For everyone not speaking french: "le chat" in french translates to "the cat". So I guess that's a play on words that works given the context and probably the mostly not native french audience.
I guess it’s like « le Big Mac » in pulp fiction.
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#39Excited about the Microsoft partnership
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally make an exception for ChatGPT for the delightful phonetical prononciation that translates to "cat I did fart"
That was a classic when playing on the french Speak & Spell GPTOPIDQ 8 year olds will laugh at anything.
Well LHOOQ is one the most famous french art piece, so, maybe there's something going on here.