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Re:Mistral raises €3B by dwedge on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:16AM (#49606650)
Sure but it's not the government calling for regulation, it's Mistral. At times they seem like a government mouthpiece to check the waters, which I could accept if their models were at least any good
Re:Mistral raises €3B by stanac on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:31AM (#49606790)
Didn't both Amodei and Altman called for regulation of open-weight models? Not that long ago on xitter....
Re:Mistral raises €3B by notahacker on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:36AM (#49607390)
They've both been insisting that humanity's survival is contingent on regulation since the start and employ armies of lobbyists to try to shape the policies they want that hold significant sway in their own country. But of course Americans doing this is smart and entrepreneurial...
Re:Mistral raises €3B by Aeolos on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:31AM (#49606788)
Did you miss the Anthropic and OpenAI blog posts screeching for regulation?
Re:Mistral raises €3B by eloisant on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:19AM (#49607777)
Yes, now that they are in place they want to put barriers for new entrants.
Re:Mistral raises €3B by oblio on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:33AM (#49606810)
Meh, OpenAI and Anthropic are doing the same. The US shtick is "our models are too powerful, government, please hold them back (and buy 10% of the company)".

Edit: forgot, they also call for banning Chinese models and open weights models...

Re:Mistral raises €3B by jryle70 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:17AM (#49609298)
Ah, "Americans are awful. Now we can be just awful"

> they also call for banning Chinese models and open weights models...

So I guess Anthropic called for banning Chinese models when they said "but let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt: Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models."? - [0]

May be they imply it? They work behind the scene for it? well, who knows. My guess is as good as yours. But since we're acting like a child, bending the truth is allowed?

By the way, China is decisive. They just banned outright Claude and Open AI. I guess no open arguments about regulation is good?

[0] - https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

Re:Mistral raises €3B by oblio on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:46AM (#49610291)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599059

> I would just ban US software companies like China did (I'd obviously also ban Chinese software companies, too). The resulting chaos would end up with some pretty solid EU software companies, the know how is there.

I'm all for following positive examples, as long as we keep democracy. We don't need to copy everything, just the good parts.