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As artificial intelligence dominated conversations between political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum this week, a relative newcomer emerged as the toast of Davos: French AI start-up Mistral.
Chief executives of three large tech companies told the Financial Times the group’s latest AI model was one of the best available products, according to technical benchmarks used by companies to evaluate their performance.
One US Big Tech executive said that nine-month old Mistral was doing “a great job” competing against sophisticated models made by large US companies like OpenAI and Google.
The interest in Mistral’s technology challenges the prevailing view that the race to dominate generative AI — systems that can spew out humanlike text, media…
