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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by boringg on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:32PM (#36328432)
That's a real lofty move. Many incredibly intelligent and talented people are incapable of producing products that work.

An example of a company that did that is all the Google X products - smart people not many great outcomes and a ton of capital.

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Re:France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to t... by ska on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:38PM (#36328537)
Why are you proposing they chose the team because they were "smart" rather than because they "ship things", as per GP comment?
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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 @08:22PM (#36349105)
I don't think they bothered to read the article.
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