Two startups have boldly stepped into the ring with OpenAI - Cohere and Mistral. We delve into Cohere's enterprise-focused approach, backed by a rumoured $1bn funding round, and Mistral's pioneering efforts with open-source models.

We also look at the broader landscape, pondering the all-important question: can these startups truly contend with market leaders in the AI space?

We discuss: Cohere, Mistral, Transformer Architecture, Chatbots, Enterprise AI, Open-Source Models, OpenAI competition, The Bitter Lesson, Richard Sutton,

Links:

- Cohere's rumoured $1bn funding round: https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/what-coheres-possible-1-billion-investment-signals-for-ai-startups-in-2024.html

- Cohere's CEO is the co-author of foundational paper "Attention Is All You Need": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need

- Cohere's official website: https://cohere.com/

- Mistral's official website: https://mistral.ai/

- Mistral's models on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending&search=mistral

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