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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by version_five on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:13PM (#36328123)
Google, Facebook and others spent billions buying the best ML people and giving them the best, and got scooped badly by OpenAI. And I know it's a cliche but lots of better engineered "iphone/ipod" products existed that got destroyed by apple. Unless they can invest in the man himself - a Jobs or Altman, I don't think investing in a good team is an automatic road to victory.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by acchow on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:36PM (#36328498)
I don't think I'm acquainted with "better engineered iphone products existed". Care you share about it?
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by AuryGlenz on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:19PM (#36330208)
Yeah. iPod I might agree with, though the interface on the device itself was pretty top tier. iPhone? Nah.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by simonebrunozzi on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:51AM (#36400575)
Nokia, a couple of years before the iphone's launch in 2007.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by littlestymaar on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:31PM (#36329401)
I don't think you can even remotely compare Jobs and Altman here, especially given how badly he missmanaged the enormous advance OpenAI had with Dall-E. In fact, he was lucky to have midjourney and stable diffusion kicking his ass on image generation and pushing him to actually release a product, otherwise Anthropic and Llama could have done the same on the LLM side.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by WanderPanda on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:20PM (#36330215)
You forget that OpenAI wasn‘t supposed to have products in the first place
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by plonk on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:16PM (#36330153)
> better engineered "iphone/ipod" products existed that got destroyed by apple

Do you mean Nokia's phones?

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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by madrox on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:20PM (#36330214)
Nothing can destroy Nokia phones
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by evbogue on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:52PM (#36330774)
It's true. I had a Nokia phone in 2003 that survived being thrown in the washer and the dryer before I noticed it was missing.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by frumper on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:58PM (#36330846)
No one wants a dirty phone.
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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by user432678 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:08PM (#36332682)
Except that ex-Microsoft manager…
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