Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.

I did a quick search here, but didn't see many posts that even mention the French AI/LLM "Mistral" (https://mistral.ai/)? What are some of the community's opinions or experiences with this? Even YT doesn't have much on it. Upside: Frontier model, open weights, options to self host, token costs (less than the big three, more than the Chinese AIs), 25% cheaper basic paid subscription ($15US instead of $20). Downside, it's in the EU, it's French (lol) and there's the whole digital wallet thing and EU nanny state mentality. I've been looking at it's features with a few chats this week and I wonder if it's a viable alternative. This is about the best video I've found on it so far: "The AI Model Nobody's Talking About — Mistral 3.5 & The Sovereignty Question" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbREGlNX8Y