I don’t agree. Tools like DeepL were and still are better than Google Translate long before chat bots became a thing. The French-made Mistral AI is pretty decent as well.

Saw some benchmarks recently that put Mistral well behind basically every other competitor. Don't have them on hand unfortunately.

FWIW, I refactored 500+ Junit 4 to Junit 5 tests with locally running Mistral 8B on an M3 MBP. It worked flawlessly, but surely I cannot attest for other use cases.

Edit: it was 8B, not 7B.

They are not the best sure, but are very inexpensive, offer better privacy and are super fast.

What specifically is it about the law slowing innovation?

Is it something these companies do that they worry violates it?