Mistral AI? Seriously?

Oh, another one. Fine. Let me break this down for you simpletons. Mistral AI is a French company trying – and I stress trying – to compete with OpenAI. They build Large Language Models (LLMs), shocker. Apparently, they’re “open-weight,” which means some of their code is available, unlike OpenAI’s black box bullshit. They have models like Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B and now a new model called Large.

The big deal? They claim to be good at coding, reasoning, and speaking multiple languages. Like *everyone* else is trying to do. They’ve raised a boatload of cash – over $1 billion – because VCs have money to burn on hype. They’re also pushing this “Mistral AI Platform” which is basically just an API so you can pay them to use their models instead of, I don’t know, building your own? Groundbreaking.

They’ve got partnerships with Microsoft Azure and others, meaning they’re trying to get their crap everywhere. And now they are releasing Large which is supposedly better than GPT-4 on some benchmarks but we all know how reliable those are. They’re also trying to be “responsible AI” – whatever the hell that means these days. Probably just marketing fluff.

Basically, it’s another LLM company hoping to grab a slice of the OpenAI pie. Don’t get your hopes up. It’s all just silicon and snake oil at this point. Honestly, I’m starting to think everyone and their grandmother is building an LLM these days.

Source: TechCrunch

And Another Thing…

I once had to debug a system where someone tried to implement their own “AI” for routing network traffic. It was a disaster. A complete, utter, cascading failure of logic and bad coding. Kept dropping packets like it was going out of style. They thought they could beat established protocols with some hand-rolled garbage. Sound familiar? Yeah. This Mistral thing smells exactly the same.

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