[siquick]

> Essentially this puts Meta, Google, and OpenAI/Microsoft (Anthropic/Amazon as a number four maybe) as the only real players in the cutting edge foundational model space.

Mistral is right up there.

[yodsanklai]

Mistral has ~20 employees. I'm sure they have good researchers, but don't they lack the computing and engineering resources the big actors have?

[crowcroft]

I'm curious to see how they go, I might have a limited understanding. From what I can tell they do a good job in terms of value and efficiency with 'lighter' models, but I don't put them in the same category as the others in the sense that they aren't producing the massive absolute best in class LLMs.

Hopefully they can prove me wrong though!