Sans context, I really like the Anthropic and Claude's faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding.

(Especially the way it looked ~12 months ago -- it's gotten more cluttered since then. Perhaps unavoidably, as the breadth of their offerings has grown)

But over time it's begun to feel like unsettling cognitive dissonance as their ambitions grow and the stuff to worry about has piled up.

The logo isnt a stylized butthole. That sure helps endear me to them.

The entire Anthropic branding is religious kitsch - deeply off putting, but apparently quite reflective of their reality.

I think there's such a thing as throwing too many marketing and sales people and too much polishing and "refinement" at something. I see in new product announcements from Microsoft as well. It's like seeing someone try too hard to impress you.

And their cookie banner. Never thought I would like a cookie banner

I do my best to avoid any AI marketing because I extremely despise it. I just haven't quite decided on my new profession, yet, but it's either going to be with plants or with animals.

It's French, duh. They'll probably surrender half of the company to the Germans after receiving a strongly (compound-)worded letter.

Was wondering what Le Chonk meant (not French).

Can't wait until Mistral starts adopting fancy product line names.

Soon we'll have Mistral 6 Chaton, Mistral 6 Guépard, Mistral 6 Tigre, Mistral 6 Dents-de-sabre, Mistral 6 Beast King, etc.

Stats be damned irrelevant. The naming is good with this one!

you and 10k other redditors

Curious now that SOL is cheaper than k3 - is k3 still your primary workhorse?

No, it's a play on the Twitter/Reddit memeing about "Le Chaton Fat", see: https://www.reddit.com/r/MistralAI/comments/1u6f0dm/what_is_...

You'd be surprised how much of the AI world is fueled by memes.

I think it's actually a wink and a nod towards the social media meme of "Le Chaton Fat," a fictional model that is jokingly attributed to Mistral, usually with century-defining benchmarks and unfathomable size.

https://x.com/i/trending/2066326562623127678

I interpret "scratch" to mean brand new weights. Not that they aren't training on a corpus of human text

Of course not. That's clearly a different URL.

>Don't believe Mistral. They're wrong. It's really called "Le chaton fat".

OpenAI's therapist: Le Chaton Fat isn't real and cannot hurt you

Le Chaton Fat:

Had the same thought - feels chart crime adjacent

Bar charts should start at zero. If they don't start at zero, there should be a clear visual indicator that the chart has been trimmed without having to read the axis labels. I hate that this has to be repeated so often that it has become a cliché.