Analysis

September 29, 2023

French AI darling Mistral’s new LLM can teach bomb building — researchers say that’s a problem

Mistral has released a new AI model and industry experts are surprised about some of the responses it's generating

Tim Smith

3 min read

French breakout AI startup Mistral this week released its first large language model (LLM) to great fanfare, as Europe seeks to hold its own in AI against Big Tech companies like Meta.

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The start of a detailed response for how to make a bomb using Mistral’s 7B model
A response to the same prompt, from Meta’s Llama 13B model
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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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