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Re: Mistral Large

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Looks like open-source is just a marketing tool for AI companies before they have a good enough model to sell. I guess we have to look for what Meta is going to do with LlaMA 3.

Re: Mistral Large

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There is not a lot of advantage to releasing this on Azure where you are directly competing with GPT-4, which will beat you on most tasks.

Re: Mistral Large

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It is very nice to see the possibility of self deployment. Does anyone have experience with self deployment of such a large model in a company setting?

Re: Mistral Large

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post #3

There is not a lot of advantage to releasing this on Azure where you are directly competing with GPT-4, which will beat you on most tasks.

Once a LLM is "good enough" the metric people care about is cost/token, which is never going to be in GPT4's favor.

Re: Mistral Large

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post #2

Looks like open-source is just a marketing tool for AI companies before they have a good enough model to sell. I guess we have to look for what Meta is going to do with LlaMA 3.

I've been saying this for months but every time I get down voted for saying it. It annoys me that people fall for these marketing tactics and keep promoting and advertising the product for free. It's not just the models though- even tools that started off as open source ended up aiming for VC and stopped being totally open.

Examples: LlamaIndex, Langchain, and most likely Ollama.

Re: Mistral Large

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post #2

Looks like open-source is just a marketing tool for AI companies before they have a good enough model to sell. I guess we have to look for what Meta is going to do with LlaMA 3.

Fine by me. They have to get money somehow so this is expected, and in return we get top notch models to use for free. I don't mind it.

Re: Mistral Large

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post #2

Looks like open-source is just a marketing tool for AI companies before they have a good enough model to sell. I guess we have to look for what Meta is going to do with LlaMA 3.

Who cares? I still get to run an llm on my own laptop and it's the coolest feeling in the world

Re: Mistral Large

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post #3

There is not a lot of advantage to releasing this on Azure where you are directly competing with GPT-4, which will beat you on most tasks.

I've been using Mistral over GPT lately, because it refuses my requests far less often.
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