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  • This makes it easier for many to try Mistral because many already use MS Foundry and you can easily switch models. In contrast, getting through the bureaucracy of negotiating a contract with yet another provider, Mistral, is harder.

    However, Mistral via MS is not as sovereign as Mistral directly even though Microsoft wants you to believe that:

    In a joint interview with Reuters, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said the partnership aimed to deliver ​such sovereignty while allowing access to US software and security features.



  • Europe is certainly behind the Frontier Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. China is close behind and we should be happy that they publish their models. Mistral does not seem to have the ambition/budget to challenge the state of the art.

    We do have some nice specialist model in Europe. We guess we have the data centers although they are unfortunately owned by US companies mostly.

    So, I’d say no we can not hold our own. We are second class. That is not catastrophic but also nothing to be proud of.