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Comment by Raed667

7 hours ago

can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?

Chinese models are trained on dubiously collected model traces from Claude/OpenAI that are purchased from model routers. All the major Chinese models use this data. That's one reason they've been able to catch up with Anthropic/OpenAI so quickly, they have so much data.

Mistral can't train on that data, because this data would be illegal to purchase & train on in the EU.

They've never made a near-frontier model. Which is a valid criticism for a model training company

  • They have done that in the past. I clearly remember the times when they dropped releases as a simple tweet and it made the front page of HN - just like the recent Chinese models releases.

> can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?

Culture.

In terms of output, EU working culture is inferior to American/Chinese working culture.

Work life balance is irrelevant for frontier/sovereign AI.