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by joe_mamba1 days ago |
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upvoteby simonw1 days ago|
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> What is "weird training biases" to us might not be weird to them and vice versa.

I agree. That's why I think European companies might prefer a European model.

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upvoteby joe_mamba1 days ago|
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Except there's no such thing as the "European model" similar how Europe is not a country.

Mistral is mostly French and tends to have mostly French speaking customers, like BNP PAribas in Belgium. Germany will want its own domestic AI champions, maybe in partnership with Switzerland and Austria, similar to how Denmark already has invested in LLMs focused on the Nordic languages with money from Norway.

The biggest mistake is treating Europe like a single homogenous country/market.

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upvoteby phillc7311 hours ago|
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Mistral just acquired Emmi AI, an Austrian startup.

German and French speaking together at last.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197995

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upvoteby joe_mamba10 hours ago|
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Was EMI specialized in the German language LLMs? Or is it that they're an Austrian lab?
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upvoteby phillc739 hours ago|
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Emmi is an Austrian lab specialising in physics AI applications.

Mistral isn’t specialising in French language LLMs either.

The point was that across different European countries and languages there are collaborations and M&A happening.

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upvoteby simonw1 days ago|
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The original question was "Yeah but why use mistral on premises instead of Qwen?". I think you and I agree on the answer.

I for one would love to see more country-specific models. There was a story here the other day about Norway’s National Library developing a LLM specialized in Norwegian: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770

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upvoteby sisve20 hours ago|
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>Similar to how Denmark already has invested in LLMs focused on the Nordic languages with money from Norway.

Would love to know more. Do you have a source on this?

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