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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by ivalm on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:12PM (#36328112)
It costs like $50M to build a next gen model, so if what they want to pitch is training next gen models it makes sense they get $100M to try. Similar to Hippocratic AI $50M seed raise. If anything this founder team seems more legit.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by iancmceachern on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:17PM (#36328196)
Interesting, what is the bulk of the cost? Programmer labor? Data center time?
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by dougSF70 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:27PM (#36328349)
GPU...H100 arent cheap and you need lots of them. And some where to keep them cool.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by atlasunshrugged on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:58PM (#36328875)
RE: Hippocratic AI, interesting Forbes piece about the founder out a day or two ago

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2023/06/12/lawsui...

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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by ivalm on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:23PM (#36330286)
I talked to Munjal and team when they were ideating on Hippocratic, even he acknowledges that healthiq was a shit show. AFAIK it was 30 people running a 1k person call center and failing. This motivated Hippocratic as they think they can do AI-based call center replacement because they were so burned out of running human-staffed call centers.

I think Hippocratic is interesting because their leadership is business focused and not very technical, while a lot of other new foundational model cos are led by technical people. I’m curious how this shakes out.

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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by BLanen on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:00AM (#36338334)
> Forbes piece

It's a web blog. Not a "Forbes piece"

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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by aerio on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:25PM (#36349128)
A piece on Forbes written by Forbes staff
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