Comment by teiferer

20 hours ago

> I am wondering what is keeping them back, though: Money? Compute? Skills? Training data?

Not ruthless enough and no backing by a corrupt govt administration that has no morals but focuses on self-enrichment instead.

Might sound drastic but I think that's actually closer to the truth thn everbody likes to admit.

> My fear is that you are really only getting really good models by training on very dubious data (outputs from the frontier models etc) and that Mistral is too European and too enterprisey to take those risks.

Exactly.