Romain Dillet / Techcrunch::
The Mistral Chat application leads 1m downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the best free downloads in the App Store in France; Chatgpt had 500K in just six days– A few weeks after the initial release of the AI AI assistant from Mistral, the cat, the company told Le Parisien that it had reached a million downloads.
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