France’s New AI Champion Scares Silicon Valley

Author(s): Ignacio de Gregorio

Originally published on Towards AI.

Mistral’s New Model is a Box of Pleasant Surprises

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Just a few months ago, a petit small French company was born. Three weeks later, it had already raised $113 million.

At the time, I recall searching the website, and it was almost plain HTML, a seemingly unimpressive CSS animation, and literally three lines of text.

Yet, the company was valued at a quarter of a billion dollars.

No team, let alone a product.

Still, they raised tons of millions through a diverse set of investors who thought that three Frency ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers were the real deal.

Now, we are starting to see why, thanks to the release of… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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