Mistral is getting a fair amount of bad press and unfair criticism. As an EU citizen, I am glad to see this initiative.
I am worried by a couple things, however:
- their market is not EU, but France: soon enough, UK and Germany will have their own Mistral. Each will have trivial access to their country's market (if only through politic backing) but accessing the neighbor's market will be an uphill battle.
- they are just helping EU play catch-up, not be at the forefront. Like sama said in a recent tweet: "the most special thing about openai is the culture of repeatable innovation. it is relatively easy to copy something; it’s hard to do something for the first time. it’s really hard to do many things for the first time!" [1]
I am worried by a couple things, however:
- their market is not EU, but France: soon enough, UK and Germany will have their own Mistral. Each will have trivial access to their country's market (if only through politic backing) but accessing the neighbor's market will be an uphill battle.
- they are just helping EU play catch-up, not be at the forefront. Like sama said in a recent tweet: "the most special thing about openai is the culture of repeatable innovation. it is relatively easy to copy something; it’s hard to do something for the first time. it’s really hard to do many things for the first time!" [1]
[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1663983687241744393?s=20