Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

nicman23

that is just ipc

wannabe44

I come up with at least two ideas like this every time I sit down in the toilet to poop.

dummydummy1234

So anyone have prior art we can point to? Because no way is a rpc call novel.

mlinhares

what an insane thing to have a patent for.

nrabulinski

Patent for the most basic pattern seen in literally all of software engineering

maeln

How is the US patent registry easy to search ? I would be curious to see the patent registration of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc. One way or another, I do fully expect every of those companies to try to fill these kinds of "almost for sure invalid and overturnable" patent as a way to defend themselves from every other actor (the classic "Oh I infringed on your patent ? Well here are some of MY patent you are infringing on, so let's call it a day").

rvz

This is just an RPC with JSON being passed around like a messaging system. So we are just vibe patenting rubbish and rebranding it with AI?

conradfr

The irony is that it's not probably not patentable in Europe.

davemp

It should be embarrassing and shameful to apply for such a trivial patent.

dwedge

Mistral has set off my stink test for a while now, they seem to be a "friendly EU AI provider" who are really an EU mouthpiece for regulation and stifling competition instead of actually innovating Edit: downvote if you want, but here's another example: "Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a "levy" to support cultural industries, the head of French developer Mistral said on Friday, March 20." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/m...

Ekaros

Do software patents only exist for rich players to build a moat against poorer players? At this point with patents of this quality only reason for them to exist seems to be to cross-license them for extra revenue and to possibly block anyone too poor to fight for themselves...

baalimago

So without sandbox: it doesn't apply. Without explicit tool approval step: it doesn't apply. Response in xml: it doesn't apply. What is the point?

hhh

no shot my gpt-3 discord chatbot that did this beats it as prior art

monster_truck

These don't really do anything, its just investement bait/participation trophies. Once worked at a startup with a legendary dumbass who would tell anyone who listened about their patent for URL routing in javascript. Please don't hurt yourself rolling your eyes

GrayHerring

I'd like to patent the term "disadvertisement" and use this as a prime example.

amberjack

EU AI innovation is really amazing.

Topfi

Still pending, or am I mistaken? Can anyone with knowledge on the US process make an estimate how likely this is to go through? I know of Uniloc and their "efforts", is there a possibility that this could take a similarly damaging path?

Roark66

It is quite funny an EU company patenting a software feature that is basically unpatentable in EU in the US. Clearly this is an attempt to prevent similar patents from being weaponised against them in the US. No one cares about such stuff in Europe.

butterisgood

TONS of prior art.

_pdp_

Plenty of previous art.