French AI community debates: betting everything on Mistral is starving the ecosystem
Ar_Douillard · x · 2026-10-29
Reacting to the French government concentrating resources on Mistral, developer Aymeric Roucher argued "Mistral is not France and France is not Mistral": Mistral is great, but putting all the government's tokens on a single player condemns the rest of the ecosystem to not innovating. ArDouillard fully agreed.
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