Yup. If a french company, Mistral, can do it you know the cat is out of the bag (ok, ok, started by an ex- OpenAI person I think).
I tried mistral-next and it is impressive.
The "moat" at this point seems to be: "Invest and train models using $$$ of hardware and electricity".
It's both exciting (nobody has an edge) and depressing (the edge consist in buying billions worth of NVidia AI chips).
What's with the France slander? France is not some technological backwater - it's given us BeOS[1], VLC and Fabrice Bellard.
1. I know Be Inc was an American company, but check the nationalities of its alumni.
The issue is that it's only democratized if you have the money.
Yup. If a french company, Mistral, can do it you know the cat is out of the bag (ok, ok, started by an ex- OpenAI person I think).
I tried mistral-next and it is impressive.
The "moat" at this point seems to be: "Invest and train models using $$$ of hardware and electricity".
It's both exciting (nobody has an edge) and depressing (the edge consist in buying billions worth of NVidia AI chips).