Its quite interesting to see that at least the early days of AI so far have not been a winner-take-all runaway acceleration game where catchup is impossible. I certainly wouldnt have predicted that 10 years ago. Very glad to see Mistral st…
I don't know why, but I personally find Mistral's marketing strategy much more appealing than that of other companies. For example, there's something about Anthropic's picked design and their little Claude avatars that's unsettling to me.
Impressive vision benchmarking. If the vision model is truly as good as astra, that would make it best in the world. Also strong on cyber benchmarks (better than all chinese models), so this is a good defender model. Lots of people shittin…
Surprisingly it only supports reasoning "none" or reasoning "high". That setting didn't seem to make any real difference - it added a tiny bit of thinking trace and high actually produced less output tokens than none. The high bicycle fram…
It's a bit below DeepSeek 4.1 Flash at about twice the size. For a model that was supposed to come out a few months ago this is pretty good. Mistral catching up to the chinese open-weight models is great news. Excited to see how they will …
Seems like they've finally made a genuinely competitive model since the original LLM craze, congrats to them! Glad to see some diversification in open weights providers.
Very nice progress. Also I respect putting Kimi on those charts. Regardless of if they are beating the Pareto frontier (not now), model diversity is a good thing for humanity — I’m hopeful for the team to keep increasing their gains.
This is awesome, one of the coolest Pokemon ever too for those that don't follow that universe :) https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lechonk_(Pok%C3%A9mo...