France’s New AI Champion Scares Silicon Valley

Mistral’s New Model is a Box of Pleasant Surprises

Ignacio de Gregorio
Towards AI
Published in
8 min readOct 28, 2023

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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.

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