> Any legal guesses as to why those 2 companies are treated differently with regards to the very generic words : "open", "text", "AI" ? The legal situation may have changed since 1991. For example: The ruling refers to…
> low probability catastrophe There is also a low probability that someone enters peace negotiations solely to threaten the negotiators with death, yet here we are. With these guys it is: Better safe than sorry.
> People outside the US understand I am outside the U.S. > that Trump is a temporary phenomenon It is not. The unlimited authority, the supreme court that goes along with it, the party that supports it all, and the…
> Mind you, it's one man, and not the nation or state, but he does have a lot of backers. My 2ct: He is the duly elected leader in a representative democracy. He speaks on behalf of all U.S. Americans, he acts on behalf…
Look into Openrouter's provider routing.
> the incentive shifts from gaming rankings to gaming the AI's understanding of what's "helpful." My 2ct: The incentive shifts from gaming rankings to bidding the highest on Google’s keyword (or similar) auction. Google…
> Like Italy, Germany, Japan, etc can be trusted but after, I'm not even sure what exactly, the US is fully and forever untrustworthy?? It took two generations and a new constitution for Germans to regain trust again.…
>Over the past 30 days, I’ve made over 5,000 commits... That's more than 166 commits a day in a month without weekends. More than 20 commits an hour (given an 8 hour workday). Or: A commit every 3 minutes. I'm sure…
There is also https://zed-themes.com/ with theme previews.
> Why people always dismiss the European option? Mistral is good for many tasks where you do not need SOTA or near SOTA performance. They cannot compete if you do.
AFAIK: Current Mistral models are not competitive with SOTA-models that come out of the USA or China. They are "good enough" for enterprise usage when you don't need SOTA performance. Their main selling point is: They…
> Just because America is doing bad things doesn't mean China is good, or vice versa. Of course not. When it comes to SOTA LLMs you have the choice between two bad options. For many, choosing the Chinese option is just…
I do not look at the stars. I look at the list of contributors, their activities and the bug reports / issues.
> How one is supposed to ensure license compliance while using LLMs which do not (and cannot) attribute sources having contributed to a specific response? Additionally there seems to be a general problem with LLM output…
> One of the biggest recent indie hits, Balatro, was made in Löve! Moonring[1] is another one that that is written in Löve (apparently by the co-creator of XBox's Fable series). The base game is even available for free.…
> those countries want those bases to protect them against Iran. As far as I know: Israel and Saudi Arabia want these bases. I do not know the current opinion of the other Arab countries. > Qatar by having a base there.…
> The Iranians would probably call that a victory, and probably not pursue further retaliation. I highly doubt it. Here are the facts from the viewpoint of Iran: - The US and the UK overthrew the democratic iranian…
> In fact they precisely voted someone promising no more wars, no more foreign meddling, and so on. In fact they voted for a convicted felon and rapist that lies to everyone as soon as he opens his mouth. A serial…
> Proton Drive for Linux (and Drive SDK) are announced for this year. Unfortunately not more specifically than “this year”. I hope you are right. I'm tired of waiting for a product I paid for while the company is…
>Congress can stop it at any time. No. Your congress can't stop it because it takes two to tango and Iran is clearly not willing to end the war just like that. You people should have stopped that criminal long ago.
It's still the same population that voted for Trump twice. It's the same constitution, the same supreme court, the same parties, the same oligarchie and the same god-king like office of the US president. Nothing will…
> Proton has mail, calendar, drive, docs, sheets and more coming As of today, there is no official Proton Drive client for Linux that I'm aware of. There is unofficial support via Rclone, but it is still beta and I try…
> but in my experience, companies only pay lip service to ethics unless it hits their bottom line. Sure, Mistral AI is certainly not the market leader and probably never will be but we're not talking about being a…
> considering a non-US model doesn't even crack the top 5 by usage How do you measure "usage" in an enterprise/commercial context where no data on usage is available to you? I don't expect Mistral AI to make it's money…
> The problem they have is that this is not a moat - their approach is easily reproducible. My 2ct: Currently the moat may be that they are not US-American which is not reproducible by any of the US alternatives.
> Any legal guesses as to why those 2 companies are treated differently with regards to the very generic words : "open", "text", "AI" ? The legal situation may have changed since 1991. For example: The ruling refers to…
> low probability catastrophe There is also a low probability that someone enters peace negotiations solely to threaten the negotiators with death, yet here we are. With these guys it is: Better safe than sorry.
> People outside the US understand I am outside the U.S. > that Trump is a temporary phenomenon It is not. The unlimited authority, the supreme court that goes along with it, the party that supports it all, and the…
> Mind you, it's one man, and not the nation or state, but he does have a lot of backers. My 2ct: He is the duly elected leader in a representative democracy. He speaks on behalf of all U.S. Americans, he acts on behalf…
Look into Openrouter's provider routing.
> the incentive shifts from gaming rankings to gaming the AI's understanding of what's "helpful." My 2ct: The incentive shifts from gaming rankings to bidding the highest on Google’s keyword (or similar) auction. Google…
> Like Italy, Germany, Japan, etc can be trusted but after, I'm not even sure what exactly, the US is fully and forever untrustworthy?? It took two generations and a new constitution for Germans to regain trust again.…
>Over the past 30 days, I’ve made over 5,000 commits... That's more than 166 commits a day in a month without weekends. More than 20 commits an hour (given an 8 hour workday). Or: A commit every 3 minutes. I'm sure…
There is also https://zed-themes.com/ with theme previews.
> Why people always dismiss the European option? Mistral is good for many tasks where you do not need SOTA or near SOTA performance. They cannot compete if you do.
AFAIK: Current Mistral models are not competitive with SOTA-models that come out of the USA or China. They are "good enough" for enterprise usage when you don't need SOTA performance. Their main selling point is: They…
> Just because America is doing bad things doesn't mean China is good, or vice versa. Of course not. When it comes to SOTA LLMs you have the choice between two bad options. For many, choosing the Chinese option is just…
I do not look at the stars. I look at the list of contributors, their activities and the bug reports / issues.
> How one is supposed to ensure license compliance while using LLMs which do not (and cannot) attribute sources having contributed to a specific response? Additionally there seems to be a general problem with LLM output…
> One of the biggest recent indie hits, Balatro, was made in Löve! Moonring[1] is another one that that is written in Löve (apparently by the co-creator of XBox's Fable series). The base game is even available for free.…
> those countries want those bases to protect them against Iran. As far as I know: Israel and Saudi Arabia want these bases. I do not know the current opinion of the other Arab countries. > Qatar by having a base there.…
> The Iranians would probably call that a victory, and probably not pursue further retaliation. I highly doubt it. Here are the facts from the viewpoint of Iran: - The US and the UK overthrew the democratic iranian…
> In fact they precisely voted someone promising no more wars, no more foreign meddling, and so on. In fact they voted for a convicted felon and rapist that lies to everyone as soon as he opens his mouth. A serial…
> Proton Drive for Linux (and Drive SDK) are announced for this year. Unfortunately not more specifically than “this year”. I hope you are right. I'm tired of waiting for a product I paid for while the company is…
>Congress can stop it at any time. No. Your congress can't stop it because it takes two to tango and Iran is clearly not willing to end the war just like that. You people should have stopped that criminal long ago.
It's still the same population that voted for Trump twice. It's the same constitution, the same supreme court, the same parties, the same oligarchie and the same god-king like office of the US president. Nothing will…
> Proton has mail, calendar, drive, docs, sheets and more coming As of today, there is no official Proton Drive client for Linux that I'm aware of. There is unofficial support via Rclone, but it is still beta and I try…
> but in my experience, companies only pay lip service to ethics unless it hits their bottom line. Sure, Mistral AI is certainly not the market leader and probably never will be but we're not talking about being a…
> considering a non-US model doesn't even crack the top 5 by usage How do you measure "usage" in an enterprise/commercial context where no data on usage is available to you? I don't expect Mistral AI to make it's money…
> The problem they have is that this is not a moat - their approach is easily reproducible. My 2ct: Currently the moat may be that they are not US-American which is not reproducible by any of the US alternatives.