Michael Dorner<p>One the one hand: Big shoutout to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MistralAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MistralAI</span></a> for making the environmental cost of their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> public: A 400‑token response from Mistral Large 2 emits ~1.14 g CO₂e, roughly the same as streaming ~10 seconds of Netflix. </p><p>On the other hand: 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱</p><p><a href="https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mistral.ai/news/our-contributi</span><span class="invisible">on-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai</span></a></p>