Mistral is good for many tasks where you do not need SOTA or near SOTA performance. They cannot compete if you do.

Their main selling point is: They are neither US-American nor Chinese. That's a real moat in today's world. I think at the moment they feel quite comfortable.

Of course not. When it comes to SOTA LLMs you have the choice between two bad options. For many, choosing the Chinese option is just choosing the lesser of two evils (and it's much cheaper).

Additionally there seems to be a general problem with LLM output and copyright[1]. At least in Germany. LLM output cannot be copyrighted and the whole legal field seems under-explored.

> This immediately raises the question of who is the author of this work and who owns the rights to it. Various solutions are possible here. It could be the user of the AI alone, or it could be a joint work between the user and the AI programmer. This question will certainly keep copyright experts in the various legal systems busy for some time to come.

It seems that in the long run the kernel license might become unenforceable if LLM output is used?!

[1] https://kpmg-law.de/en/ai-and-copyright-what-is-permitted-wh...

Moonring[1] is another one that that is written in Löve (apparently by the co-creator of XBox's Fable series). The base game is even available for free. I had lots of fun playing it.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/

As far as I know: Israel and Saudi Arabia want these bases. I do not know the current opinion of the other Arab countries.

> Qatar by having a base there. They willingly let the US stay there.

At least they are now noticing that there are risks in hosting the US military too.

> “One of the most significant outcomes of this war is the shattering of the concept of a regional security system in the Gulf region,” Mr. al-Ansari said. “The regional security framework in the Gulf was based on certain axioms. Many of these axioms have been bypassed in the current war.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/world/middleeast/qatar-us...

I highly doubt it. Here are the facts from the viewpoint of Iran:

- The US and the UK overthrew the democratic iranian government of Mohammad Mosaddegh

- The US terminated the working nuclear deal.

- The US ambushed Iran twice in the midst of ongoing negotiations.

- Israel is on a conquest to annex new land and to rule over the middle east. At least that is likely there goal.

Iran clearly stated their demands. The US should pay up for the damage they caused and the US should give up its military bases in the Arab countries.

While the money will probably not be that big of a problem to negotiate, the military bases will be. At least Iran will insist on something substantive that guarantees that they are not ambushed a third time.

In fact they voted for a convicted felon and rapist that lies to everyone as soon as he opens his mouth. A serial bankrupt that stole money from a charity.

That was all on the table and yet his voters said loud and clear: That guy, that criminal, that one full of hate and anger, who lies and does about everything if it is in his self interest, that's the guy that represents us best.

e:

"No more wars" didn't seem to be their main issue. Just imagine, Trump won the war after a week of bombing. The Iran regime is toppled and a US-friendly dictator is installed.

Are really sure his voters would not celebrate the war and great general Trump?

I hope you are right. I'm tired of waiting for a product I paid for while the company is working on new products instead of finishing the one that is halfway there.

No. Your congress can't stop it because it takes two to tango and Iran is clearly not willing to end the war just like that.

You people should have stopped that criminal long ago.

Nothing will change with respect to trust after the midterms.

As of today, there is no official Proton Drive client for Linux that I'm aware of. There is unofficial support via Rclone, but it is still beta and I try to avoid mounting via Rclone anyway. I recall that it wasn't a really convincing experience when I tried it with OneDrive.

Sure, Mistral AI is certainly not the market leader and probably never will be but we're not talking about being a market leader but about having a moat.

I instantly believe you when you tell me that many companies do not care. On the other hand there are companies that do. At least partially: ASML, Stellantis, AXA, BNP Paribas, the French ministry of defense, Helsing, SNCF, ... are all Mistral AI customers.

How do you measure "usage" in an enterprise/commercial context where no data on usage is available to you? I don't expect Mistral AI to make it's money on OpenRouter.

My 2ct: Currently the moat may be that they are not US-American which is not reproducible by any of the US alternatives.

I haven't looked into it that much but to my understanding a) You just need an audio buffer and b) Thye seem to support streaming (or at least it's planed)

> Looking at the library’s trajectory — ASR, streaming TTS, multilingual synthesis, and now speech-to-speech — the clear direction was always streaming voice processing. With this release, PersonaPlex supports it.

LOL. Finally the Techbro-CEOs succeeded in creating an AI in their own image.

> You should *drive*.

> Here is why:

> If you walk to the car wash, you will arrive there empty-handed. Since your car is still at home, you won't have anything to wash.

> While driving 50 meters is a very short trip (and technically not great for a cold engine), it is the only way to get the car to the car wash to complete your goal.

Kimi K2.5:

> You should drive, but with an important caveat.

> Since your goal is to wash your car, you must bring the vehicle to the car wash. Walking there without the car does not advance your goal (unless you are simply checking availability or buying tokens first).

> However, driving only 50 meters is bad for your car:

> ...

> Better options:

> Wash at home: Since the car wash is only 50 meters away, you likely have access to water at home. Hand-washing in your driveway avoids the cold-start issue entirely.

> ...

Current models seem to be fine answering that question.

Yesterday, I saw a demo of a product similar to OpenClaw. It can organize your files and directories and works really great (until it doesn't, of course). But don't worry, you surely have a backup and need to test the restore function anyway. /s

Edit:

So far, I haven’t found a practical use case for this. To become truly useful, it would need access to certain resources or data that I’m not comfortable sharing with it.