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…
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!
They are under the EU AI act, so that’s something.
Too bad the EU is demolishing the AI Act to appease Trump.
And anyway all other vendors would be under the EU AI Act in the EU market.
By the end of Trump, it’s doubtful anybody will be doing stuff to appease him.
By the end of Trump we should be happy if there is anybody left anywhere with significant power to even think to have a leverage against anyone else.
Even OPEC is coming apart.
Maybe the US will suffer greatly and the rest of the world have to come off of the US addiction, but the world might actually be brighter afterwards.