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How Franceโ€™s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American (www.forbes.com)
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Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didnโ€™t work out. But it turns out lots of folks donโ€™t care if the AI is bleeding edge โ€“ as long as it wasnโ€™t made in America or China.

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... [Cofounder and CEO of Mistral Arthur] Menschโ€™s vision for Mistral, and AI itself, can be summed up in one word: independence. Unlike its black-box Silicon Valley rivals, most of Mistralโ€™s AI models are what techies call โ€œopen weight.โ€ In this sort of open-source model, customers are free to get under the hood, customize the AI using their own data or download it for free to run offline (or from a laptop).

The message resonates. Old-school execs are spooked by the world-consuming rhetoric of OpenAI and Anthropic and the emerging threat of Chinese AI companies. Menschโ€™s talk of control and sovereignty is soothing, as is his pitch that Mistral will deploy engineers to set up and run the tech for them. Your data doesnโ€™t even need to leave the office, let alone the country.

โ€œWe are really the only company that allows [building] core business automation and products on top of an open stack, and that is something that is valuable everywhere in the world,โ€ says Mensch, 33, from Mistralโ€™s offices in the trendy 10th arrondissement of Paris, as kids play soccer in the courtyard out back.

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[โ€“] GarbadgeGoober@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So for me it works fine on e/OS doenloaded through Aurora Store.

The results are not as good as the other huge LLMs, but for the stuff I use it is efficient enough.

[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Aurora would have google services, I must have got an apk or something.

I just wish all apps offered direct apk downloads without the google mandated shit