The Mistral team is just as sketchy as the other AI folks, they're former Google and Meta employees. I want to believe they won't be like Altman or Amodei. But they are following the same playbook: in debt to investors, making promises (saying their data centre will find cures to diabetes and cancer), pirating books, and lobbying the gov't to pay a one-time penalty to avoid future litigation in plagiarism cases...

Still, fingers crossed!

I use mistral, and have been happily paying for it the past 3 months. It's more than good enough for my needs and the only AI company I trust with my data.

Even used their coding assistant to vibe code some simple apps for my personal usage recently and was pleasantly suprised.

Le Chat and Mistral Vibe are very good products. I use Vibe on a daily basis. Works very well with my style (relatively small iterative steps, very exact prompts) and it's often faster than the competition.

Mistral improved by a lot.

lol at people sharding for AI flavors

stupid ‘vibes’ all the way down

Is there a use case where Mistral still beat Qwen or Gemma? If you're using Mistral, which model and what do you use it for?

Money gets to anybody's head, European, Asian, or USAian.