Mistral AI co-founder Arthur Mensch argues AGI is unrealistic, comparing AI's geopolitical importance to 20th-century oil

AI, just like oil in the 20th century, is about to become the major source of leverage and power in the world. Depending on how the coming years unfold, it will either lead to a world of wealth and abundance for all, or to the worst extractive economies that the world has ever seen. We're there to fight for the first scenario, as we progress AI research and accelerate its diffusion across the world – we're hiring if you like the quest.

We've built Studio (for deployment) and Forge (for training) as portable products, and are now hosting them on infrastructure we control. We'll run in your VPC, your datacenter, or on our infrastructure that is decoupled from US service providers. We have capacity online, it's growing fast, and we can help you secure it.

This model and upcoming ones will be open-weight. We believe this is critical for our customer confidence and for the research and developer communities. You cannot own, inspect, audit, or improve a system you are only permitted to reach through someone else's interface, especially if data recording can no longer be turned off.

First, we have a nice model coming this summer – we hope it will delight and surprise in a few capabilities. This will be the start of a new family of models, fat indeed, but sparse. We're opening up an early access program in July for key partners in research, government and the industry.

We're working with companies and governments around the world to make sure their AI systems are up and running outside of external control, improving with each model release, and with an efficient cost structure. Forge allows to continuously train models based on recorded human-AI interaction, a key unlock for efficiency.

oh, *now* we're talking about power and leverage? After Americans have let you touch the hem of the cloak of their Sand God and immediately took it away?

@arthurmensch we need some clarity

is the name Le Chaton Fat or Le gros chaton

@arthurmensch Le Chaton Fat!?!

The memes now create reality1

@arthurmensch

@b3rtZB @arthurmensch He said it yesterday dude lol

@arthurmensch do u actually use mistral models for ur own work, be honest its ok

@arthurmensch Le Chaton Fat 😼

@arthurmensch Wen Le Chaton Fat

@arthurmensch Le Chaton Fat is confirmed to be liberated!!!

@arthurmensch So... if one cannot use the cloud will we get something that a person with a normal rig (32gb vram) can actually use? Because all this talk of companies, governments, industry makes me think we aren't even getting the scraps, which would be really sad.

@b3rtZB @arthurmensch No it doesn't lol

@arthurmensch > fat indeed, but sparse 🙌

@SkidderUp @arthurmensch im asking him not you

i know he said it yesterday but on the website is shows Le Chaton Fat

@Elettra251 @arthurmensch Normal rig is 8/12g vram 🤣

@arthurmensch