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To me Mistral is a cheap kitchen appliance brand so I looked it up. There’s a lot of brands named Mistral. Soap, windsurfing, apparel, alcohol, footwear, to name the first half of the first page of Google results. We can add AI to the pile. :)

I’m not sure I understand the motivation behind picking a well-used name. Is there some strategic advantage to this?




Or maybe name just doesn't matter (as long as it's not mega-awful).

Is "Hugging Face" a better name? Sounds like something from the Alien movie.


The word comes from a strong wind in the Rhine valley and the south of France so I guess the usage hearkens back to that.


It has nothing to do with the Rhine valley. It is a strong seaward wind just in southern France.


Probably meant Rhône, not Rhine.




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