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