https://pub.towardsai.net/frances-new-ai-champion-scares-silicon-valley-0a7277ac5b72 Open in app Sign up Sign In [ ] Write Sign up Sign In [1] Member-only story France's New AI Champion Scares Silicon Valley Mistral's New Model is a Box of Pleasant Surprises Ignacio de Gregorio Towards AI Ignacio de Gregorio * Follow Published in Towards AI * 8 min read * 5 days ago -- 12 Share Source: Author with Dall-E3 Just a few months ago, a petit small French company was born. Three weeks later, it had already raised $113 million. At the time, I recall searching the website, and it was almost plain HTML, a seemingly unimpressive CSS animation, and literally three lines of text. Yet, the company was valued at a quarter of a billion dollars. No team, let alone a product. Still, they raised tons of millions through a diverse set of investors who thought that three Frency ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers were the real deal. Now, we are starting to see why, thanks to the release of their first model, Mistral. A 7-billion-parameter model that, despite its size, has crazy credentials already and comes packed with surprises that few saw coming. The results are so good that, proportionate to its size, one could be bold enough to say that its the best Generative AI model ever created. This model was originally covered days ago in my free weekly newsletter, TheTechOasis. If you want to be up-to-date with the frenetic world of AI while also feeling inspired to take action or, at the very least, to be well-prepared for the future ahead of us, this is for you. 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