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Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by jart on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:57PM (#39566105)
Works already been done for the most part. Mixtral is to GPT what Linux was to Windows. Mistral AI has been doing such a good job democratizing Microsoft's advantage that Microsoft is beginning to invest in them.
Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by bugglebeetle on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:06PM (#39566186)
Microsoft just bought off Mistral into no longer releasing open weights and scrubbing all references to them from their site…?
Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by TotempaaltJ on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:11PM (#39566246)
There's a "Download" button for their open models literally two clicks away from the homepage.

Click "Learn more" under the big "Committing to open models" heading on the homepage. Then, because their deeplinking is bad, click "Open" in the toggle at the top. There's your download link.

Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by qwertox on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:44PM (#39566589)
Which is Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B. Mistral Large belongs to the closed source optimized models.
Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by bugglebeetle on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:13PM (#39566259)
See “no longer” in my original comment. They just announced their new slate of models, none of which are open weights. The models linked to download are the “before Microsoft $$$, Azure deal, and free supercomputers” ones.
Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by chasd00 on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:35PM (#39566502)
This is Linux all over again, Microsoft is going to use every trick and dollar they have to fight open source.

/I'm too old to fight that battle again...

Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by TotempaaltJ on Friday March 01, 2024 @05:19PM (#39567465)
Sure, but they clearly haven't "scrubbed all references" of their open weights from their site.
Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-... by bugglebeetle on Friday March 01, 2024 @05:24PM (#39567517)
Sorry, they’ve just scrubbed most of the references and otherwise edited their site to downplay any commitment to open source, post-Microsoft investment.