The 1-Year Old AI Startup That’s Rivaling OpenAI

Mistral AI is often seen as the startup challenging OpenAI and incumbents developing LLMs. On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning, we sat down with CEO and Co-Founder at Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch. Arthur shared with us his view on why open-source will prevail (3:09), how Mistral gets LLMs into the hands of enterprises, the build vs. partnership decisions (7:53), the competitive landscape and future of LLMs (10:15), and how he’d regulate AI safety (20:10). 0:00 intro 0:49 origins of the name “Mistral” 2:23 logo origins 3:09 closed-source vs open-source models 6:34 “training models is what we do best” 7:53 Mistral’s partnership strategy 10:15 the next frontiers for LLMs 11:50 Meta’s GPU announcement 13:06 when will Mistral catch up to ChatGPT? 16:03 NVIDIA chips 16:58 AI regulation and EU AI Act 20:10 who should handle AI safety? 20:54 policy changes that Arthur would make 22:55 foundation models around the world 25:53 starting Mistral 26:57 releasing Le Chat 30:22 over-hyped/under-hyped 30:35 surprises while building Mistral 31:58 AI startups Arthur is excited about 32:22 what application would Arthur build 33:49 Jacob and Jordan debrief With your co-hosts:  @jacobeffron  Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health  @patrickachase  Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn  @ericabrescia  Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)  @jordan_segall  Partner at Redpoint