Mistral AI

also referred to as: mistral

7 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2023 by Brad Gerstner · said 20 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (7), Chamath Palihapitiya (7), Arthur Mensch (2), Sergey Brin (1), Reid Hoffman (1), Gavin Baker (1), Brad Gerstner (1)

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Everything said about Mistral AI, oldest first

Jun 16, 2023 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Brad Gerstner predicts upcoming AI funding rounds will dwarf Mistral's €105M seed
“There are going to be a couple of monster rounds, I think announced next week, like that are going to make this one look like kids play.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 1:17:20 E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
Jun 16, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Chamath harshly criticizes VCs writing small checks into massive AI seed rounds
“When you're embedding four million in a hundred and five million dollar round at 240 plus, you do not know what the fuck you're doing.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 1:17:11 E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
Nov 3, 2023 positive
Opinion
Chamath: Mistral and open-source models are superior to Llama 2
“Before I give all the credit to Facebook, I'd rather say that I think there are a lot of open source alternatives, including Mistral, that I think are much better. And free and open and in the clear where you can have unencumbered growth, not dependent on anyb…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 1:04:38 E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
Feb 9, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath predicts public internet AI models will hit parity within nine months
“So if you are using the open internet, Lama, Mistral, OpenAI, they're all getting to the same Quality code point, and they will be there within the next six to nine months.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 58:07 E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
Mar 23, 2026
Disclosure
Mensch: Mistral deploys model training tools directly on client infrastructure
“Overall the data segregation is super important and the way we have solved that is through a portable platform. So our technology is a set of services, a set of training tools, A set of data processing tools that I can take and that I can put on the infrastruc…”
Arthur Mensch Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:11:45 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
Mar 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mensch: Mistral AI has 25% of business and researchers in US
“First, we have 25% of our business in the US and 25% of our researchers are actually here.”
Arthur Mensch Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:08:37 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
Mar 23, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Mensch: Mistral AI will train next-gen frontier models with NVIDIA
“Well, we are announcing that we are going to be training the next generation of Frontier models with NVIDIA.”
Arthur Mensch Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:07:38 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
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