If you don't "have the full context on the Persona/Discord story" you should work on getting it.

It's literally the first thing that came to mind when I saw your post and not having a convincing/satisfying answer in direct relation to that catastrophe doesn't bode well for getting people to trust your brand. The rest of your answer is essentially the absolute minimum I'd expect from a business like this, but not sufficiently convincing.

Regardless of your opinion of Yann or his views on auto regressive models being "sufficient" for what most would describe as AGI or ASI, this is probably a good thing for Europe. We need more well capitalized labs that aren't US or China centric and while I do like Mistral, they just haven't been keeping up on the frontier of model performance and seem like they've sort of pivoted into being integration specialists and consultants for EU corporations. That's fine and they've got to make money, but fully ceding the research front is not a good way to keep the EU competitive.

Yup, that was it. Didn't realize they're different models. I suppose naming has never been OpenAI's strong suit.

Ah yes, okay that makes more sense!