[D] Mistral received funding and is worth billions now. Are open source LLMs the future?

Came across this intriguing [article](https://gizmodo.com/mistral-artificial-intelligence-gpt-3-openai-1851091217) about Mistral, an open-source LLM that recently scored 400 million in funding, now valued at 2 billion. Are open-source LLMs gonna be the future? Considering the trust issues with ChatGPT and the debates about its safety, the idea of open-source LLMs seems to be the best bet imo.

Unlike closed-source models, users can verify the privacy claims of open-source models. There have been some good things being said about Mistral, and I only hope such …

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