Burkov slams Mistral investors for pushing the lab to stop open-sourcing and chase OCR revenue
burkov · x · 2026-09-23
ML practitioner Andriy Burkov criticizes Mistral's investors for telling the engineers behind Mistral and Mixtral to stop free model releases and monetize, starting with OCR — calling them short-sighted, ROI-obsessed managers. He says such mediocrity drove him to quit employment entirely, and laments the Mistral team's missed once-in-a-lifetime shot at a multi-billion-dollar company.
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