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Comment by gilgoomesh

17 hours ago

> lack of European competitors

There's Mistral. Although they've been surprisingly quiet for the last 6 months.

They are profitable and active on the enterprise local model territory. You can RL a model with them for your own purposes and I heard good things about it.

  • Mistral's business model works even if they start using Chinese models instead of training their own.

    • If China keeps releasing LLMs with such permissive licenses it probably works better since the pretraining rnd is subsidized and de-risked - but that’s a big if.

France might do something mad and take that route, but EU wide ain't happening for Mistrals sake.

  • Would be hard for them to act alone due to free movement in EU. Would be hard for them to outlaw a German business from offering the models from a German datacenter to French customers.