Mistral Reveals its Secret Weapon—Mark Zuckerberg; Struggling Startups Are Looking For the Exits

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a rough time testifying in Congress on Wednesday about social media’s mental health effects, but he must have cracked a smile after seeing the latest example of his company’s impact on the AI sector. 

For the past few months, AI founders and Meta employees have quietly speculated that Meta’s flagship open-source Llama model had been used by fast-rising Mistral, a Paris-based startup now valued at $2 billion, to develop its own open-source LLMs. Until …

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