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January 31, 2025

DeepSeek rewrote the AI rulebook. What will Mistral do next?

Are DeepSeek’s high-performance, low-cost LLMs an existential challenge or a huge opportunity for France’s AI darling?


Mistral AI cofounders: Guillaume Lample, Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sent shockwaves around the world earlier this month when it released R1 — a large-language model (LLM) it says is on par with those developed by ChatGPT maker OpenAI, but was developed at a fraction of the price.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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