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w4yai 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Mistral raises €3B

I actually believe the amount of $ is what was missing for them to improve their fundamental flaws. They're a very competent team, but were working with a tiny fraction of the budget of US/China teams.

smurf9852 27 days ago [–]

You sure? Kimi K2 Thinking was apparently build by just 80 people and not more funding.

disgruntledphd2 27 days ago | [–]

> Kimi K2 Thinking was apparently build by just 80 people and not more funding.

But they're not competing (offically at least) for GPUs and they have much, much cheaper electricity (which makes pre-training more affordable).

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