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Trying out Mistral's Le Chat (chat.mistral.ai, French, but speaks English too ;) as AI Assistant now, as an alternative to the US Department of War partner, OpenAI's ChatGPT.
https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/

KI-Update kompakt: Mistral 3.5, Joint Ventures, Arzneistoffe, Vibe-Coding
Das „KI-Update“ liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

KI-Update kompakt: Mistral 3.5, Joint Ventures, Arzneistoffe, Vibe-Coding
Das „KI-Update“ liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.

Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-staff-meet-xai-emplo…

Cursor Staff Meet With xAI Employees as Layoffs, Exits Mount
Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX’s AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk’s firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion. Cursor staffers have been visiting xAI offices to meet with employees and discuss their work, according to two people with direct ...

Mistral AI ist Europas letzte echte KI-Option — Le Chat, Mistral Forge, die SAP-Partnerschaft und die Frage nach digitaler Souveränität. Folge 204 von #9vor9 mit @…. #MistralAI

Mistral AI: Europas letzte KI-Option — und warum wir sie jetzt nutzen müssen #9vor9
Mistral AI ist Europas einzige ernstzunehmende Antwort auf OpenAI, Google und Co. In Folge 204 von #9vor9 haben Lars Basche und ich Le Chat, Mistral Forge und die SAP-Partnerschaft unter die Lupe g…

Mistral AI: Neues Sprachmodell Medium 3.5 und Cloud-Coding-Agenten
Das französische KI-Start-up Mistral hat das Sprachmodell Medium 3.5 sowie neue Cloud-Funktionen für Coding-Agenten und den KI-Assistenten Le Chat vorgestellt.

Mistral AI: Neues Sprachmodell Medium 3.5 und Cloud-Coding-Agenten
Das französische KI-Start-up Mistral hat das Sprachmodell Medium 3.5 sowie neue Cloud-Funktionen für Coding-Agenten und den KI-Assistenten Le Chat vorgestellt.

I have a similar cognitive response in these two different scenarios: reading the sciencey page at the dispensary that shows how awesome this strain is.
And reading the sciencey page about LLMs like the one below.
I read them with the full intention of understand said science. Then I get a few sentences in, and what looks like made up words start appearing. A few paragraphs in and I'm not sure it's English anymore.
But, hey they have graphs. And their dots are th…

Large Enough | Mistral AI
Today, we are announcing Mistral Large 2, the new generation of our flagship model. Compared to its predecessor, Mistral Large 2 is significantly more capable in code generation, mathematics, and reasoning. It also provides a much stronger multilingual support, and advanced function calling capabilities.

#MistralAI has fucking beautiful docs 😍
#ai #mistral

Alle #KI-Giganten sitzen in den #USA – oder #China. Alle?
Nein! Ein kleines Unternehmen in #Paris hört…

Weather was better than expected and we took the chance to do a little ride-out in the neighbourhood.
Spring is really here now. The meadows are mostly green and we don't need thick layers for cycling.
#cycling #badtoelz

Mistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mistral-ai-lan

Risque d'influence des agents #IA de #Mistral et d'autres sans doute par des influenceurs lobbies politiques étrangers Manipulations des recherches et de l'aide Š la #décision

L'intelligence artificielle française Mistral épinglée pour avoir relayé de la désinformation russe, chinoise ou iranienne
Un rapport de l'organisme de surveillance de la désinformation NewsGuard révèle que le robot conversationnel de Mistral a repris plusieurs fausses informations provenant de réseaux sociaux ou médias alignés sur les intérêts des États russes, chinois et iraniens.

#Leanstral: #OpenSource foundation for trustworthy #vibecoding
https://

"It turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn’t made in America or China."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-frances-mistral-built-a-14-billion-ai…

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American
Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn’t made in America or China.

Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (Mistral AI)
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-4

Introducing Mistral Small 4 | Mistral AI

Bookmarked: Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/oeaw-entwickelt-altgriechisch-ki-apollo-mit-mistral-1

Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply
Austrian Archaeological Institute Develops Custom AI Model for Hundreds of Thousands of Ancient Papyri and Inscriptions ++ Faßmann: “AI and ancient languages are not a contradiction”

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mistral-releases-a-new-open…

Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation | TechCrunch
Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.

@… perfect, thanks.
"Non, je ne pète pas." 😸 and now, I think I hear a double entendre with "Le Chat Mistral".

I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist

Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-explored…

SpaceX and Cursor have explored a team-up with Mistral to take on AI rivals
Musk has eyed a collaboration with French startup Mistral to help xAI catch Anthropic and OpenAI.

Als we onafhankelijk willen worden van BigTech hebben we in Europa meer datacenters nodig, niet minder.
#EU #datacenters #bigtech

Mistral raises $830mn to build Nvidia-powered AI centres in Europe
French company’s debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups

Man kann LeChat (Mistral) super mit der Bitte um Grafiken für Faszienrollenübungen trollen.

Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/mistral-forge-nvidia-gtc-build-your-own-ai-…

Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise | TechCrunch
Mistral Forge lets enterprises train custom AI models from scratch on their own data, challenging rivals that rely on fine-tuning and retrieval-based approaches.

Mistral CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested in "new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors" (Arthur Mensch/Financial Times)

Someday soon, all the names of all the things will be taken by LLMs. Do you want to talk to the north wind? Ask Mistral. Have you wondered if there's life out there? Ask Galactica. Fancy amazons? Download Amazon Nova.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_model…

Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/mistral-ai-buys-k…

Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions | TechCrunch
Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Ok, så hur kan vi bli mer digitalt oberoende av USA? Här några tankar:
Mail, kalender (mm): Proton
X/Bluesky: Mastodon
AI: Mistral
Office: LibreOffice
Signal/WhatsApp: Olvid, Threema.
Knepigare:
Webbläsare: Vivaldi. Men helst vill jag att Mozilla flyttar Firefox-utvecklingen till Europa.
Sökmotor: Qwant (tycker inte riktigt den håller måttet än)
OS: Linux (men håller det som alternativ till MacOS/Windows?)
Slack mm: Nextcloud Talk kanske (ha…

Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American
Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn’t made in America or China.

Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/229f4f59-d518-4e00-abd6-5a5b727cd2aa

Mehr über die einzig verblieben europäische Alternative zu ChatGPT & Co erfahren: Interview mit Arthur Mensch von Mistral AI im Deutschlandfunk. Vier Thesen zu KI in Europa:
Europa kann und muss digital souverän werden
Souveränität heißt nicht Isolation
Es braucht öffentliche Nachfrage nach europäischer KI
AI Act & Bürokratie: Start-ups brauchen Erleichterungen
#KI…

Viele arbeiten seit Jahren mit ChatGPT – mit tausenden Chats und gewachsenen Workflows. Ein Plattformwechsel wirkt da schnell wie ein Neustart.
Marcus Schwarze erklärt in der FAZ (€), wie man Chats exportiert und Wissen zu Claude, Gemini oder dem europäischen Anbieter Mistral mitnimmt.
Sehr praktischer KI-Umzugsratgeber.
#KI

Mistral plans to spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden in partnership with EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 and its first investment outside France (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Mistral CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested in "new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors" (Arthur Mensch/Financial Times)

Wissenschaftler von #Stanford haben #ChatGPT, #Claude, #Gemini,

Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-linked project in Paris, as it pivots toward the US (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral and will develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was "north of $400M", up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/664249e7-e8d5-4425-b397-ad3ed590b305