They are focusing hard on small models. Sooner or later, you'll be able to run their product offline, even on mobile devices.
Google was criticized [0] for offloading pretty much all generative AI tasks onto the cloud - instead of running it on the Tensor G3 built into its Pixel Phones specifically for that purpose. The reason being, of course, that the Tensor G3 is much to small for almost all modern generative models.
So Mistral is focusing specifically on an area the big players are failing right now.
Google was criticized [0] for offloading pretty much all generative AI tasks onto the cloud - instead of running it on the Tensor G3 built into its Pixel Phones specifically for that purpose. The reason being, of course, that the Tensor G3 is much to small for almost all modern generative models.
So Mistral is focusing specifically on an area the big players are failing right now.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37966569