They are building their own infra - south of Paris and another one was announced in Sweden recently.

Then why does their list of subprocessors list Google and Microsoft "for cloud infrastructure", specifically for "Le Chat, La Plateforme, Mistral Code"? Sounds to me as if they're mainly running on Azure.

Also, they're listing CoreWeave as inference provider in "EEA" area, but CoreWeave is of course also an US company. Even if they have their data center physically in the EU, it must be considered open access for the USA due to the CLOUD act.

https://trust.mistral.ai/subprocessors

If what you say is true, they have a communications problem and they need to fix that urgently. Right now, this is why they don't get my business. Others will have made the same decision based on their own subprocessor list.

Or did you mean, they're like, right now building it and plan to move there, but it's not up yet?

They are not up yet. The Paris one is expected in 2028, the one in Sweden in 2027.

Thanks for your work and I really really hope the open source project stays maintained. I’ve been using it from the very beginning and it’s been great!

If you read his blog you’ll find about a lot of his engineering decisions.

Peter was right about a lot of the nuances of coding agents and ways to build software over the last 9 months before it was obvious.

Was he? Openclaw is now dead, right? The software will now die. No-one's going to maintain it.

This was a short-term gain for a long term loss.

I remember in the web 3 era some team put together a CV in one page site, literally a site that you could put your linkedin, phone no and email on but pretty, bought for millions.

Was the product a success or the marketing? As the product was dead within weeks.

There's a lot of low hanging fruit in AI at the moment, you'll see a few more things like this happen.

> No-one's going to maintain it.

Why? He's going to maintain it and the community is large enough. Another sci-fi idea that's slowly becoming real is that the project is maintaining itself.

OpenClaw is a bunch of projects that evolved together (vibetunnel, pi-mono, all the CLIs). It's even more interesting to see the next iterations, not only what happens to this project.

We've been here a 1,000 times. This exact news happens over and over again on HN. Why would it be any different from the other times this happens?

This is what US tech companies do to stay dominant. Buy and kill.

This project will die now, that's the point of buying him. For super cheap too but the sound of it.

Openclaw is an open source project. that's the beauty of the Open source. the community can take over and people can fork it. there already many clone of openclaw.

do you know about www.linktr.ee ? :-D :-D

Astro is great and I hope they keep improving after the acquisition.

Given what agents can do, I feel a lot of the sites built on Webflow, Framer and so on will move to code and Astro is a great framework for this.

I partially agree with you that things get abandoned by users when they are too complex, but I think skills are a big improvement compared to what we had before.

Skills + tool search tool (dynamic MCP loading) announced recently are way better than just using MCP tools. I see more adoption by the people around me compared to a few months ago.

I use it all the time with coding agents, especially if I'm running multiple terminals. It's way faster to talk than type. The only problem is that it looks awkward if there are others around.

Interesting. I can think and type faster, but not talk. I am not much of a talker.

Same, whenever I try to dictate something I always umm and ahhh and go back a bunch of times, and it's faster to just type. I guess it's just a matter of practice, and I'm fine when I'm talking to other people, it's only dictation I'm having trouble with.

It has something called "Custom Words" which might be what you are describing. Haven't tested this feature yet properly.

So is this already in Handy or you are referring to a feature of the underlying models you are still not actively using?

This is already in Handy in Advanced > Custom Words.

There is also Post Processing where you can rerun the output through an LLM and refine it, which is the closest to what Wispr Flow is doing.

This can be found in the debug menu in the GUI (Cmd + Shift + D).

As an alternative to Wisprflow, Superwhisper and so on. It works really well compared to the commercial competitors but with a local model.

I'm really surprised how much pushback and denial there is still from a lot of engineers.

This is truly impressive and not only hype.

Things have been impressive at least since April 2025.

Is this satire? This comment could not be a better example of what the linked article is talking about.

Not satire. The author is in denial of what's happening.

What is happening?

Not much. They can still parrot their training data. AGI is still 5-20 years away.

I bought the Refactoring UI book years ago and it taught me so much about simplicity and good design!