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Mistral Exposed for Distilling DeepSeek and Faking Results

Mistral accused of distilling DeepSeek's model & faking benchmarks. Whistleblower exposes alleged misconduct. Open-source AI giant faces controversy.

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Meng Li
Aug 14, 2025
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Resignation Drama! Mistral Exposed for "Distilling" DeepSeek

A Twitter user broke the news that a female former Mistral employee sent mass emails exposing multiple company scandals.

The most explosive revelation: Mistral's latest model allegedly directly distilled from DeepSeek, yet packaged it externally as a successful RL case while deliberately distorting benchmark test results.

Speaking of Mistral, this company is hailed as the European version of OpenAI and is one of the global open-source star players, with model performance consistently receiving high praise.

Precisely because of its outstanding reputation, this exposé appears particularly shocking.

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