French startup Mistral AI announced it has secured 450 million euros in funding, reaching an estimated valuation of nearly 2 billion USD, with investors including Nvidia and Salesforce. Mistral AI's open-source large language model Mistral7B features small parameters, low energy consumption, and high performance, supporting text generation, code generation, and more, with 4,500 stars on GitHub. The founding team has a strong background, with experience from Meta and Google's AI research labs, and Mistral7B has performed excellently in benchmark tests.

Hugging Face has established a two-person team named H4, aimed at the open-source development of AI models similar to ChatGPT. The main research focus of the H4 team is on alignment technology, allowing large language models to learn based on human feedback behavior, relying on dedicated clusters for training. The H4 team has released several open-source large language models, including the conversational Zephyr-7B-α and the improved Falcon-40B. H4 does not directly derive commercial benefits from their tools but accelerates Hugging Face.