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Re:Mistral: The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon V... by phtrivier on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @05:00AM (#39536004)
> "I educated myself and others on Google's budget"

Do you assume he did not produce anything valuable at Google while working there ? (That's entirely possible, but not certain.)

As the old joke goes:

    A: "What if I train them, and they leave ?"
    B: "Sure. What if you don't train them, and they stay ?"
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Re:Mistral: The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon V... by zorowithenma on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:30AM (#39537024)
He's the main lead in developing a model called chinchilla, which at that time provided results as good as those of gpt-3
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Re:Mistral: The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon V... by robertlagrant on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:34AM (#39588560)
> Do you assume he did not produce anything valuable at Google while working there

Oh - I'm not saying that. I assume he did, but was also paid to do that.

I'm more commenting on the marketing, rather than the person.

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