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> Mistral is in the EU which doesn't have a stable regulatory regime.

I guess the US's "no regulations ever" can be considered a stable regulatory regime.

I think "predictable" would have been a better word than "stable" here.

Yeah, I guess "stable" works too, though.

The word they were really looking for was "favorable".

Making your competitor solely responsible for an important component in your ecosystem is bad news, and ClosedAI is basically an arm of Microsoft only separate to shield them from legal concerns around copyright. (And if the component is not that important, which is possibly the case with LLMs, then why spend so much money and undermine user privacy?)

> Google is a major investor in Anthropic.

And Microsoft is an even bigger investor in OpenAI. Why couldn't Apple join Google in this?

There's also Meta, whose money is as endless as Microsoft's.

They have a deep hatred for Meta, so Llama is out