Mistral AI

also referred to as: mistral

includes Mistral Large, Mistral Seven B

14 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2023 by Arthur Mensch · said 49 times in 17 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sarah Guo (24), Elad Gil (18), Arthur Mensch (3), Thomas Dohmke (1), Jared Quincy Davis (1), Emily Glassberg Sands (1), Dylan Patel (1)

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Nov 9, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Mensch: Mistral Is Not Yet the Top Expert in Instruction Tuning
“We're not the top experts in the world in, in, in making good instruction fine tune models. We're definitely ramping up and the team is, is getting better and better at that.”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 10:09 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mensch: AI agents currently suffer from repetitive mode collapse
“What we see with agent is mode collapse. So not very interesting mode collapse. They start repeating themselves and they fall into loops.”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 28:33 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 neutral
Insight
Mensch: Viable AI agents require a 100x reduction in compute costs
“I think making a model smaller is definitely a way to make agent work. Because one problem you have with agent that very quickly is start to, if you run an agent on GPT four you're going to run out of money very quickly. And so if you divide by a hundred the, …”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 28:12 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 neutral
Insight
Mensch: Pure scientific model performance ignores crucial runtime inference costs
“And if you want to push the performance, the pure performance of models, you don't care about inference because you, well, you are not going to use the model. You're just going to see whether they're good or not. And that's really for scientific purposes. But …”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 7:14 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 bullish
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Mensch: Distilling state-of-the-art small models requires training massive models first
“The other thing about moving into larger models is that it enables you to train smaller models that are better, which is through variety of techniques like distillation or synthetic data generation. So this, these two things are quite related. If you want to m…”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 8:42 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Arthur Mensch: Mistral Aims to Make AI Safer Through Openness and Scrutiny
“By doing what we do, by being much more open about the technology we create, we want to steer the community into a regime where things just work better, where things are safer because put under more scrutiny, and really our intention there is to, well, to take…”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 13:11 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Mensch: Mistral cannot afford 10^26 FLOP training runs for coming years
“That's not something we can even afford. And that we won't be able to afford for the coming years.”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 17:41 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mensch: Single H100 GPU can serve hundreds of API customers
“It's going to be less costly because just a single H-Handroid can serve hundreds of customers.”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 30:20 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mensch: Mistral 7B proved AI model compression limits are far away
“What we showed with Mistral Seven B is that we weren't, we were definitely far away from the limit of compression.”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 5:51 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 negative
Opinion
Mensch: Closed-source AI wastes billions in duplicated compute
“We think that it's too early, and we think it's really, ah, damaging for the science, ah, to actually move into such an opaque regime, where you have A few companies basically doing the same thing, just not communicating about it spending billions of compute d…”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 11:56 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 9, 2023 positive
Insight
Mensch: Base AI models should know everything, with guardrails added externally
“Assuming that the model should be well behaved is, I think, a wrong assumption. You need to make the assumption that the model should know everything. And then on top of that, have some modules that moderate and guardrail the model.”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 23:59 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Opinion
Mensch: AI safety should regulate application makers, not trust big model labs
“And the way you make this healthy competition is not By trusting a couple of companies to do their own safety, it's rather for, it's rather the way you do it is to ask application makers to comply with some rules.”
Arthur Mensch Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 16:28 No Priors Ep. 46 | Best of 2023 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Jan 11, 2024
Insight
Mensch: AI base models should know everything and use modular guardrails
“Assuming that the model should be well behaved is, I think, a wrong assumption. You need to make the assumption that the model should know everything. And then on top of that, have some modules that moderate and guardrail the model.”
Arthur Mensch Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 15:46 No Priors Ep. 46 | Best of 2023 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Mar 7, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Gil: Mistral reached near GPT-4 capability within one year of founding
“They went from basically starting the company to almost GPT-IV level in less than a year.”
Elad Gil Mar 7, 2024 ▶ 2:00 No Priors Ep. 54 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
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