Makes much more sense described in this way.

Mistral's annual revenue (700M) is what Anthropic generates in 3 days. It will be extremely difficult to build new models with these numbers.

Mistral just needs to good enough category think all those flash models or Qwen3.8 27b which they sadly aren't at the moment, that plus being European lab will mean that they will have very nice business. Even now these SOTA models feel too overkill for most tasks.

The question is not, will mistral be able to create the best models (seems bloody unlikely). The question is, will mistral have enough expertise to dominate its business use-case, which is the model infra/deployment market within the EU (which is more plausible, with even a 3rd, 4th, 5th best model development team).

And GLM local models can eat Anthropic's lunch just like both eat OpenAI's.

Mistral's revenue is mostly B2B, and that's much more difficult to move.

Local models or independent hosting companies. Like Baseten, but there could be dozens of them.

if you have a computer to run said local GLM models one

The big US labs are naively hoping that compute power will always be their moat. I strongly suspect they are dead wrong, and newer architectures will require vastly less training data and outperform the brute force approach of US labs.

Arianspace launches from French Guiana while a French commune is not really close to the actual continent of Europe.

French Guiana is in the EU though. While Norway is not.

It is indeed a huge success but it also underlines how far ahead the rest of the world is.

I'd honestly rather like to use this opportunity to talk about that this is a success than returning to our regularly scheduled doomer loop.

A rocket launched into orbit from Norway. That's insane progress and worth celebrating.

> That's insane progress and worth celebrating.

A non-reusable launcher that can put small payloads into a Polar orbits only, due to launch site latitude and lack of an orbital bus. It's fairly 1960s stuff.

Did Europe have those capabilities in the 1960s?

Or is this insane progress for Europe?

only four countries in the world have private/commercial space launch capacity, and SpaceX towers over everyone else so I'd say this is doing pretty alright compared to the rest of the world

As EV’s have shown, I don’t think they’re gonna be ahead for long and long-term the current technology is just a steppingstone because damaging the ozone layer can’t go on forever with the current technique being used something else. Better has to come forward.

So what should they do nothing? They have to get started somehow if Japan and China can do it so can Europe, and I think long-term once again, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand won’t be far behind…

I think New Zealand is ahead. RocketLab was the second company in the world after SpaceX to get a privately developed launch vehicle to orbit, back in 2017. They've now had 86 successful launches from their NZ launch site.

That's essentially what they have done for military/defense.

The United States saves the day. France pretends they are in charge with grand speeches.

I was close to a European immigrant and 2 things she was shocked about:

How rich the United States was. Even our poor had more than her upper middle class family had.

How people in the United States do not take 2 hour coffee and cigarette breaks.

Is this the joke section of the comments?

The Taco section, with the way the present American administration has behaved. Most of our friends/allies are looking to protect themselves andbe prepared to go on without us. All it took was two years of buffoonery.

Utter bullshit.

Claude used to be 10x more efficient. I think there are no barriers of entry between one coding agent and the other. Therefore, I expect them to reverse as soon as people switch. At least this is what I will do.

The blue line (200K context) is lower than the red line (300K context). Indicating that it's cheaper to run blue rather than red over longer cycles.

> Qwen 3.7 Pro is just unusable. wastes too much time, goes off track, useless stuck loops, cannot debug at all. D

Anthropic should not have bugged their knowledge distillation attacks.

> Anthropic should not have bugged their knowledge distillation attacks.

It is like one of Pizzaro's men crying that someone have stolen his precious golden dublons

As Lenin have said - "Loot the looters" (Russian: Грабь награбленное)

Appealing to the Belsheviks for moral authority is, well I will just say an interesting approach. I do not have that much sympathy for Anthropic, but I do not have much sympathy for publishing companies either whose rights to a revenue stream they violated either. Are Chinese AI companies the Robin Hood in this story? Would they be so magnanimous if they had the upper hand? I don’t think so.

Considering the results from Kimi K3, it appears most the accusations of them “stealing” via distillation are unfounded accusations.

how many hn posts do you believe arent propaganda these days?

its billions, trillions were talking about.

imo hn should display posters origin, such as country, bon, datacenter registered ips, and the discourse will change dramatically.

Hope they move away from the engagement model. I prefer blogs over reddit/insta/tiktok in search results.

ChatGPT Codex launches, and it's the worst of both worlds. Who would have thought?

The on-ramp in crypto is incredibly well built out. But then, once you are in the fake money world, you will notice that the off-ramp doesn't exist.

The off-ramp of nearly all of my crypto endeavors has been very easy in my experience. Not always simple, because a lot of parts of moving money on various crypto chains is unintuitive and well in-need of improvement, but definitely easy once you know what to do.

The most annoying part, somewhat surprisingly, is always with regards to United States KYC restrictions. I've had a fair bit of annoyance trying to move crypto off of services that were once accessible to US customers and no longer are.

Offramp exists it just depends how ugly it is by country. A friend of mine literally travels to another country to withdraw what he is paid in crypto.

I have taken money out of Polymarket and it is quick and easy.

on-ramp and off-ramp were the problems of the past. Thanks to Trump, both worlds have merged together now.

Off-ramp does exist. Stop lying.

Until you’re flagged for some vague reason and support/fraud can’t help you.

I personally cant wait to start seeing sob stories of how people are having thier account permanently locked after making big wins. Thats what happens when you bgive money to unregulated casinos every tine and is the exact reason there are so many gambling laws and restrictions.

have you tried to turn crypto into cash money in a real bank account? have you tried to do it with large amounts? would you describe that process as easy?

It depends on what you mean by “large amounts,” but many “large amount” transactions trigger flags at the bank

yes. For crypto platforms specfically, those "large amounts" can be pathetically small. Ive had no end of trouble even with amounts as low as $50 getting my card blocked until I call the bank