Hugging Face's Jeff Boudier pens tribute to Mistral's founders and open-weights path
pcuenq · x · 2026-09-04
Jeff Boudier of Hugging Face published a tribute to Mistral's founders (Clem, Julien, Thom), praising their contrarian path: building a massive company through community, releasing open weights for the world free of charge, running a flat global team on trust and transparency, and being taken seriously without taking themselves too seriously. The post doubles as a marker of the open-source community's affection for Mistral's approach.
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