France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American

Re:France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being Amer... by mark_l_watson on Monday April 27, 2026 @09:07AM (#47921084)

Indirectly I use Mistral daily: I like Proton’s Lumo private chat and that runs on Mistral technology. Something like Lumo is very much good enough to replace search and general information browsing and for me is very practical.

What is not so practical is my paying for Gemini Ultra, which has some practicality but is something I pay for because it is fun using strong AIs like Claude and Gemini Pro in AntiGravity. It feels funny to admit paying a lot of money just to have fun with something.

I wish Mistral good luck, and I like their deployed forward engineers approach to business. Seems practical.

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Re:France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being Amer... by jagermo on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:53AM (#47922439)

I'm looking forward to have a more extensive Kagi API and link that to Lumo. I tried it with Claude and it works pretty well but is too expensive right now. I would love to have more flexibility.

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