Mistral courts U.S. business with cheaper, not the smartest, AI

France’s leading AI company, Mistral, is named for the strong Mediterranean gusts that blow across southern France.

France’s leading AI company, Mistral, is named for the strong Mediterranean gusts that blow across southern France. Founded by a trio of machine learning engineers who worked at Facebook and Google, the company has surged in recent years to become the main European contender in the race to build generative AI systems.

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