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Comment by bugglebeetle | Hacker News Reader

Yes, it’s their tried and true maneuver: embrace, extend, extinguish.

Can we stop having this comment in every Microsoft post. It is like people have no clue what EEE is/was, but if it is MS let's post this.

Uh, sorry, but this seems pretty consistent with trying to co-opt and kill open source AI competition:

> [EEE] describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

Also I've never heard the term myself

I suggest reading up on this, it is an important element that significantly shaped the computer world.

But yeah, not sure it is at play here.

> "The US tech giant will provide the 10-month-old Paris-based company with help in bringing its AI models to market. Microsoft will also take a minor stake in Mistral although the financial details have not been disclosed"

Where are the "widely used standards"? Where are the "extending the standards with proprietary capabilities"? Where is the "strongly disadvantaging competitors"?

Mistral is the most used and fine-tuned open source model by a mile, close to the standard for open models, they’ve locked them down into offering their models behind an API and in Azure. The Azure offering sets them up for be the most safe, GDPR compliant offering for enterprises in Europe, where Microsoft already has a huge reach and customer base, bolstered by Mistral being a homegrown brand.

We should just automete these comments: MS: Oh No! Embrace Extend Extinguish ! Google: Oh No! killedbygoogle ! Meta: Oh No! So much Ads ! Apple: Oh No! Evil App Store policy !

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