Never liked the French..
Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't disagree, but Mistral is hardly a "rich player" in the current AI bubble. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and X are each valued at a trillion or more. Mistral is valued at $20B, 50x less. Even Deepseek is several times bigger than Mistral.
What a time we live in when 20 billion is considered poor... I would consider companies in sub million range to be poor and that is charitable already...
The time we live in is a bubble. Cursor, a company that developed a fork of VSCode that uses AI models they don't own on hardware they don't own got bought for $60B, compare with JetBrains, a company that actually makes some of the best if not the best IDEs in several languages is "only" worth $7B.
$20B is certainly not poor, but in the world of AI and overinflated valuations, it almost is.
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#63I read somewhere that the US Patent Office is like a candy store for other countries to pick up cool tech and continue local development.
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#64Cloudflare introduced Code Mode far earlier (https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/)
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#65I read somewhere that the US Patent Office is like a candy store for other countries to pick up cool tech and continue local development.
Likely from Palmer Luckey, who coined the term 'Chinese instruction manuals'
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#66AI companies business model is that peasants don’t have intellectual property. Everyone who contributed to this filing should be publicly spat upon and shunned.
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#67Mistral 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…
There are many ways for a business to survive outside of innovation
Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
#68So anyone have prior art we can point to? Because no way is a rpc call novel.
You pay the lawyer in thousands to use a language which meets the criteria for the patent. Thousands of software patents are repetition of each other with some thing in particular worded differently
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#69Do software patents only exist for rich players to build a moat against poorer players? At this point with patents of this quality only reason for them to exist seems to be to cross-license them for extra revenue and to possibly block anyone too poor to fight for themselves...
Mistral is not a rich player in the context of AI. It is minor smaller company, basically.
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#70But... why? Isn't that what smolagents[0] has done from the beginning? Also this move is blackening Mistral in my book.