Prime Intellect's Elie Bakouch argues Mistral's European origin and open-weight models secure its enterprise dominance

my take on this is that it’s not even really mistral fault, they actually have lots of clients, and more than a decent amount of gpus and datacenters compared to other open actors

but there is very little (none?) competition in Europe on the « frontier » llm aspect, so they just have to build a « good enough » model, clients choose them because they are European and/or open weight (the fact that enterprises can deploy mistral models on their own infra is a big deal for some companies) so they don’t have to compete on model capabilities with oai and anthropic

my take on this is that it’s not even really mistral fault, they actually have lots of clients, and more than a decent amount of gpus and datacenters compared to other open actors

but there is very little (none?) competition in Europe on the « frontier » llm aspect, so they just have to build a « good enough » model, clients choose them because they are European and/or open weight (the fact that enterprises can deploy mistral models on their own infra is a big deal for some companies) so they don’t have to compete on model capabilities with oai and anthropic