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Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by Roark66 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

dwedge wrote: post #17

Mistral has set off my stink test for a while now, they seem to be a "friendly EU AI provider" who are really an EU mouthpiece for regulation and stifling competition instead of actually innovating Edit: downvote if you want, but here's another example: "Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a "levy" to support cultural industries, the head of French developer Mistral said on Friday, M…

This will not fly anywhere outside France Polish here and the very first question I have is "who would decide which cultural industry representatives would get the money"? And what right the decision makers have to decide that. How about they send few k EUR a month to my friend who is a struggling painter :-D

Somehow I doubt that will happen.

It reminds me of those taxes on CD-R disks to support "Art associations" that were proposed before.

Voices like this are useful to spark a debate on AI basically taking content owned by other people and selling it, but no one will agree to implement anything like what is proposed.

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by amberjack » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

EU AI innovation is really amazing.

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by Topfi » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

Still pending, or am I mistaken? Can anyone with knowledge on the US process make an estimate how likely this is to go through? I know of Uniloc and their "efforts", is there a possibility that this could take a similarly damaging path?

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by Roark66 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

It is quite funny an EU company patenting a software feature that is basically unpatentable in EU in the US.

Clearly this is an attempt to prevent similar patents from being weaponised against them in the US.

No one cares about such stuff in Europe.

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by sam1r » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

wannabe44 wrote: post #3

I come up with at least two ideas like this every time I sit down in the toilet to poop.

One could also have their preferred AI draft + deploy the white paper prior to flush.

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by butterisgood » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

TONS of prior art.

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by _pdp_ » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

Plenty of previous art.

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by sam1r » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

Can somebody care to explain if the 2013 and 2006 refer to IDs or reference to past years.

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by realusername » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

Roark66 wrote: post #31

dwedge wrote: post #17

Mistral has set off my stink test for a while now, they seem to be a "friendly EU AI provider" who are really an EU mouthpiece for regulation and stifling competition instead of actually innovating Edit: downvote if you want, but here's another example: "Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a "levy" to support cultural industries, the head of French developer Mistral said on Friday, M…

This will not fly anywhere outside France Polish here and the very first question I have is "who would decide which cultural industry representatives would get the money"? And what right the decision makers have to decide that. How about they send few k EUR a month to my friend who is a struggling painter :-D Somehow I doubt that will happen. It reminds me of those taxes on CD-R disks to support "Art associations" th…

> It reminds me of those taxes on CD-R disks to support "Art associations" that were proposed before.

They're not just proposed, they are implemented in a lot of countries and France actually has the highest CD tax in the EU (and probably in the world but I haven't checked)

Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

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Post by dwedge » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

Roark66 wrote: post #31

dwedge wrote: post #17

Mistral has set off my stink test for a while now, they seem to be a "friendly EU AI provider" who are really an EU mouthpiece for regulation and stifling competition instead of actually innovating Edit: downvote if you want, but here's another example: "Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a "levy" to support cultural industries, the head of French developer Mistral said on Friday, M…

This will not fly anywhere outside France Polish here and the very first question I have is "who would decide which cultural industry representatives would get the money"? And what right the decision makers have to decide that. How about they send few k EUR a month to my friend who is a struggling painter :-D Somehow I doubt that will happen. It reminds me of those taxes on CD-R disks to support "Art associations" th…

> This will not fly anywhere outside France Polish here

> It reminds me of those taxes on CD-R disks to support "Art associations" that were proposed before.

I find it funny when citizens of a country say things like this. Are you unaware that the Polish government brought in the same tax, 1-3%, on smartphones, laptops, desktop computers and SD cards from November this year? https://tvn24.pl/biznes/tech/nowa-oplata-od-smartfonow-table...