Here is the hard truth: Mistral is becoming more and more a consulting firm rather than a cutting-edge AI lab, closer to Accenture than to OpenAI, Anthropic or Qwen, unfortunately. They are absolutely not competitive in terms of cutting-edge models. Their LLMs are
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China’s long game vs US ego harms AI credibility
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vs China plays the long game; the U.S. is so ego-bound it couldn’t wait a weekend—and maybe did lasting harm to the credibility of the U.S. AI industry as a result.
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AI slowdown achieved, Chinese threat looms over US companies
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At Claude Build day several builders made the same point to me. Well we have gotten the AI slowdown lots wanted. Until the Chinese do it. American companies are handcuffed. For now.
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Mistral’s struggle to keep pace with Big Three and Chinese labs
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Has there been anything good written about the failure of Mistral to keep up with both the Big Three and Chinese labs? They have talent and national backing, but despite being Europe’s only frontier lab (Google Deepmind’s UK lab aside), they haven’t been able to close the gap
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The two most absurd weeks in AI history
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The last two weeks in AI have been the most absurd period in the history of tech. I can't even keep up. And that's literally what I do for a living. → Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its most powerful model ever made public. At the forefront of
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Ban of Claude Fable5 by Trump: Major Setback for AI
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Read carefully. By politically banning the #Claude #Fable5 model from @AnthropicAI, the real Donald #Trump has set an insurmountable barrier in the development of American and perhaps global AI models. This is an historic industrial precedent that will be very
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Trump administration could trip US GenAI race efforts
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Until tonight, I didn’t think either the US or China would “win” the GenAI race. I thought it would be a tie. Didn’t occur to me the Trump administration could trip the US efforts from behind. But it just did.
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Commerce decree shuts Anthropic, critic calls overdramatic and counterproductive
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Commerce’s shocking decree this afternoon – which effectively shuts down Anthropic by cutting off access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for many of their own employees — seems both wildly overdramatic and also counterproductive for the US AI industry. I concur with @deanwball
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AI keeps secret an equivalent of AlphaGo’s Move 37 for day trading
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I think that one of the leading AI labs will eventually discover the day trading equivalent of AlphaGo's Move 37, and they will keep it to themselves until someone blows the whistle.
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Apple uses NVIDIA Blackwell B200s on Google Cloud for private inference
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I had already wondered how Apple manages to perform inference at Google while simultaneously protecting their privacy, essentially their unique selling point. The answer: the heaviest requests run on Blackwell B200s inside Google Cloud, with NVIDIA's Confidential Computing