Mistral's Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days (opens in new tab)

Mistral's partnership with Cerebras for inference hardware has received less commentary than I expected. They're basically blowing the competition out of the water, with Le Chat getting 1,100+ tokens per second of per-user throughput.

It should be noted that as a customer of the French ISP Free you get a one year free subscription of Le Chat Pro (Free CEO Xavier Niel is an investor).

That probably helped downloads.

The information from the content of the article is not much different from the title.

I think I wasted my time reading it this time. Just my opinion.

The Le Chat Web UI, after having some code and text generated, slowed down to unusable levels for me(the UI itself, probably has some JS code that goes through all the DOM every time). That's why I downloaded the app.

Generally, I feel like all the AI models are about the same at this point. Grok in Twitter has the ability to access real time events information but the rest seems to be interchangeable at this point.

I pay for ChatGPT for higher usage limits, then use all the rest for different things in order to keep history for different things separated(not because one is better than the other in the smartness department).

Why is it not on the LLM leaderboard?

https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard

Do they not take part, or is the list not complete?

I have found testing coding prompts in mistral and Claude lets me pick, they differ in some details of how to implement my goals (python3, numpy, matplotlib, json, requests sourced data, CSV handling, linear regression)

They are similar speed. I am probably travelling the well worn road so in some equivalent of the LRU cache

Just switched my paid plan over from chatgpt to mistral for the warm fuzzy feelings. C'est genial!

I stopped doing business with Mistral when I got an API subscription and then watched one of their devs break and try to fix their oauth live over several hours over what clearly was something they didn't bother trying in a non-prod environment.

Their websearch is bad.

See https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/01a9ee32-a8fe-4305-8f74-a5af959... as an example.

Try the same on other chats with websearch.

It's funny. Le Chat's gaslighting me in French. Claims Mistral develops ChatGPT when answering in French, but OpenAI when in English.

For your amusement too: https://imgur.com/EgmQ0Ph

Mistral is great, I love their image generation and speed at which it replies. They really don't benefit as much hype from the others contenders but it feels like they are the silent undertaker.

Great app

0.1% market share.

Cute.