Huh, I wonder if this comes with an OpenAI-like exclusivity deal for Mistral's closed models. If so, Satya just wrapped up pretty much the two largest names in AI other than Google.

Sad but expected that Mistral is releasing its newer models as closed source. There was never a clear revenue stream from the open models.

I'm confused why they aren't allowing their models to be finetuned, though — that seems like an obvious way to compete with OpenAI, which only allows finetuning of its pretty weak gpt-3.5-turbo. Sure, Mistral can't quite beat GPT-4 yet, even if it's close — but allowing finetuning would likely result in way better than GPT-4 performance on a broad variety of tasks (as long as you picked a few to specialize in).