Can't wait for the "$LAST_MODEL was amazing but this is the one that will change everything."
My tinfoil theory is that it was left by them to be discovered by the public.
And imo, Mythos is a much better name than the kind of shit Mistral seems to come up with.
It is standard in multilingual regions to consider multiple languages during product naming; to do otherwise is often considered humiliating.
You can bet your nut that "Mistral" was sounded out in more languages than "Cat, I farted" ever was.
Here are a couple of particularly famous fsckups:
- the Rolls Royce Silver Mist didn't sell well in Germany for some reason (coughs)
- the Chevy Nova didn't sell well in Spanish countries, again, seemingly for no reason (cackles)
"a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristic or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture" (Merriam-Webster)
This doesn't seem obscure to me. It's what a model encodes in its weights. Am I falling into the xkcd 2501 trap?
What is happening here would be easily understood and obvious by everybody if it the head of marketing for a food company was on TV talking about how pretty soon everybody will be eating their food, and how it's so unbelievably tasty that it might cause people to leave their families and abandon all other hobbies in pursuit of their delicious product, utterly destroying society as we know it.
I mean maybe it'll happen eventually. Maybe we'll all end up with a wire stuck in the back of our heads, floating in a vat of nutritious goo. But what we've seen so far has been an excellent, highly useful, and certainly groundbreaking industrial automation product.
Maybe they could just write a blog post telling us what the thing does and how much it costs and when we can try it.
Also, Hegseth did a big fucky wucky if true - since they went scorched earth with Anthropic, this could mean denying the US frontier model capabilities.
It would be pretty amusing if Anthropic emerges as the clear winner (for some period of time) and other governments can use them but the US government cannot.
Current admin is certainly too prideful to walk something like this back. After all, admitting mistakes is unmasculine, and we have very manly men in charge of war round these parts!
