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		theturtletalks on March 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DBRX: A new open LLM Mistral did what many startups are doing now, leveraging open-source to get traction and then doing a rug-pull. Hell, I've seen many startups be open-source, get contributions, get free press, get into YC and before you know it, the repo is gone.

antupis on March 28, 2024 [–]

Well Databricks is a big company with real cash flow, and Mistral is a startup so there is a kinda big difference here.

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