I prefer their old name

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

The name alone would make me steer clear of Mistral.

But I'll tell you what made me steer clear of Mistral before they even changed the name of their product: I called their rep to tell them my company - which is sizeable - tasked me to investigate AI solutions that aren't American, and I needed help to evaluate their offering, with the possibility of landing our entire company as a business customer, and the rep never followed through.

That told me everything I needed to know about Mistral.

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    Yep: the company decided to invest in local AI machines. All the "regular" devs get a 6k€ machine (this one) and the power users will get a 30k€ one (not sure which kind yet). The machines run whatever the devs like - in my case, llama.cpp and the GPT-OSS-120B coding model. It works well to spews out boilerplate and serves as a really handy "super search engine" that can code examples for me. That's all I need to work faster with AI.

    I'm glad the company went that route. Cloud shit is shit and I don't like it, and I like cloud AI shit even less. Local AI makes us free from American vagaries at a very reasonable cost - at least for a company.

    Mistral lost our business by not being proactive and I'm glad they did.

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