The financial incentives for training frontier open weights models don’t exist. Small models, sure, but there is a huge capability gap.
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AutoGTM: The AI agent that automates all sales work
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AutoGTM by Explee is the first AI agent that does ALL the sales work. Not just data. Not just templates. → You paste your URL
→ It analyzes your product, identifies your ICP
→ Scans 105M+ companies (including those never indexed on LinkedIn)
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Mistral becomes a consulting firm, not an AI leader
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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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Subscription cost comparison: Chinese labs cheaper but older quality
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The 100/200$/month sub works well for most. There’s also really competitive offering from chinese labs out, quality is usually a year behind latest gen but for 10% of the costs.
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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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Ironic victory to company with better model and White House access
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victory to whichever company has the better model, er, um, White House access!
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Tech companies and the future of cheaper AI models
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Can #Tech companies learn to love cheaper #AI models? by Russell Brandom @TechCrunch Learn more: https://
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