Mistral AI Buys Koyeb: Because Fuck AWS and Their Shitty Pricing, That’s Why
So Mistral AI, those French wankers who think they can build a better ChatGPT without the American corporate bullshit, just went and bought Koyeb. First acquisition. How fucking precious. It’s like watching a baby take its first steps, except the baby is burning through VC cash faster than a BOFH burns through users’ home directories.
Koyeb, for those of you who don’t give a shit (which is everyone), is some serverless platform that apparently does… cloud things. The kind of thing that sounds impressive in a pitch deck and makes investors cream their pants, but in reality is just another way to run Docker containers that’ll crash when Karen from Marketing’s cat video goes viral.
The whole fucking point? Mistral’s got “cloud ambitions” now. Translation: they’re tired of paying AWS enough money to fund a small country’s military just to run their bloody AI models. Can’t blame them. AWS pricing is designed by Satan himself to make you sell your soul for GPU hours.
So now they’ve got their own infrastructure. Big fucking deal. Like that’ll stop the endless stream of moronic support tickets: “Why is my AI generating pictures of ducks when I asked for a business plan?” BECAUSE YOU’RE A FUCKING IDIOT, THAT’S WHY. But sure, blame the cloud provider. As if owning the stack will magically make your prompts less shit.
The article wanks on about “synergies” and “vertical integration”—MBA speak for “we hope this saves money before the VC taps run dry.” Meanwhile, engineers are crying into their espresso because now they’ve got to maintain this acquired pile of legacy code written by a 23-year-old who thought Kubernetes was a Japanese food delivery service.
But hey, at least it’s French. When it all goes tits up, they can surrender gracefully. That’s the plan.
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Anecdote: Had a user who thought “serverless” meant “no servers at all.” Tried to explain it’s just someone else’s servers. They didn’t get it. So I told them we’d moved their shit to “cloudless” architecture and unplugged their workstation. Problem solved. They actually thanked me for the “improved performance.”
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