Comment by sofixa

Comment by sofixa 17 hours ago

4 replies

Mistral are mostly focusing on b2b, and for customers that want to self-host (banks and stuff). So their founders being from Meta, or where their cloud platform are hosted, are entirely irrelevant to the story.

BoorishBears 17 hours ago

The fact they would not exist without the leeches and built their business on the leeches is irrelevant.

Pan-nationalism is a hell of a drug: a company that does not know you exist puts out an objectively awful release, and people take frank discussion of it as a personal slight.

  • Fnoord 7 hours ago

    Those who crawled the web without consent, and then put their LLM in a blackbox without attribution, with secret prompt and secret weights -- ie. all of this without giving back, while creating tons of Co2. Those are the leeches.

  • baq 15 hours ago

    If you want to allocate capital efficiently planet-scale you have to ignore nations to the largest extent possible.

  • sofixa 17 hours ago

    > The fact they would not exist without the leeches and built their business on the leeches is irrelevant.

    How so?