They are profitable and active on the enterprise local model territory. You can RL a model with them for your own purposes and I heard good things about it.
replyMistral's business model works even if they start using Chinese models instead of training their own.
replyIf China keeps releasing LLMs with such permissive licenses it probably works better since the pretraining rnd is subsidized and de-risked - but that’s a big if.
reply> There's Mistral
replyMistral: eq.IQ ~70
Kimi, Claude, Grok, Gpt, Gemini: eq.IQ ~130+
France might do something mad and take that route, but EU wide ain't happening for Mistrals sake.
replyWould be hard for them to act alone due to free movement in EU. Would be hard for them to outlaw a German business from offering the models from a German datacenter to French customers.
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