France's New AI Champion Scares Silicon Valley

[gardenfelder]

https://pub.towardsai.net/frances-new-ai-champion-scares-silicon-valley-0a7277ac5b72

[reidjs]

Tough to define “best AI model” at this point in time, but definitely rooting for them.

— Silicon Valley Representative

[gardenfelder]

"Now, we are starting to see why, thanks to the release of their first model, Mistral.

A 7-billion-parameter model that, despite its size, has crazy credentials already and comes packed with surprises that few saw coming."

[gardenfelder → gardenfelder]

Fully open source

https://github.com/mistralai/

[mistrial9 → gardenfelder]

anyone know why they have a forked version of the python Transformers library there?