On: Mistral Large 4

[verdverm]

I wondered if there would be a Qwen 4 or we would go straight to 5, re: tetraphobia, but perhaps it's more like an uno reverse card in this case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

[satvikpendem → verdverm]

DeepSeek being Chinese also has 4 so I don't think it's a big deal for model makers.

[verdverm → satvikpendem]

GLM moved through their 4-series without consequence

I wonder if the next DS models will also graduate to 5.x, I think I saw they are training up a 10T model, and just raised $12B too

[disgruntledphd2 → verdverm]

> and just raised $12B too

It's important to realise that Deepseek are a very unconventional model lab, as they were originally funded by the founder's work in quantitative trading.

They mostly don't need that much money, the reason they took funding is to provide employees with equity, as lots of their good people were getting poached by other Chinese model startups.

(I have no inside info, just read the FT articles about them).