<story><title>Pixtral 12B</title><url>https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-12b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaic</author><text>As much as I love their work, I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one who really struggles to see a path to profitability for Mistral, right? How do you make money selling API access to a model which anyone else can spin up an API for (license is Apache 2.0) on AWS or GCP or similar? Do they have some sort of magic inference optimization that allows them to be cheaper per-token than other hosting providers? Why would I use their API instead of anybody else&amp;#x27;s?&lt;p&gt;Asking these questions as a genuine fan of this company—I really want to believe they can succeed and not go the way of StabilityAI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kridsdale3</author><text>Mistral&amp;#x27;s business model is to take advantage of French National Pride and be state funded.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pixtral 12B</title><url>https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-12b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaic</author><text>As much as I love their work, I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one who really struggles to see a path to profitability for Mistral, right? How do you make money selling API access to a model which anyone else can spin up an API for (license is Apache 2.0) on AWS or GCP or similar? Do they have some sort of magic inference optimization that allows them to be cheaper per-token than other hosting providers? Why would I use their API instead of anybody else&amp;#x27;s?&lt;p&gt;Asking these questions as a genuine fan of this company—I really want to believe they can succeed and not go the way of StabilityAI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shin_lao</author><text>Probably keep building something awesome and worry about monetization later. Google did that.</text></comment>