Comment by glimshe
12 hours ago
Mistral is an embarrassment and clear proof that Europe needs to review its mechanisms for growing and retaining tech talent.
With such strong human capital, both in quantity and quality, Europe should in theory be competitive with US and China in AI.
Which US or Chinese time-series foundation models do you prefer over Mistral's?
Care to explain why Mistral is an embarrassment?
I was going to write a technical reply but my high schooler son just happened to summarize it in a great one liner:
"Mistral is so bad, it's the only AI my school doesn't bother to block"
Still not an explanation.
I mean their latest model is gated behind API pricing that's more than enough to prevent any pupil from using it. I did not try ML4 (I'll wait till the end of the preview at least) so I can't tell anything about its performance outside of benchmarks, but on paper it's basically at the level of Muse Spark Open and I've not seen nearly as many people spitting on that model.