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> I don't know if how close Europe is, but I'm sufficiently whelmed by Mistral that I don't need to look elsewhere yet. It's kind-of like having a Toyota Corolla while everybody else is driving around in smart cars but it gets it done. My problem was that it really doesn't, none of the models out there are that great at agentic coding when you care about maintainability. Sonnet 4.5 sometimes struggles and is only oka…
Coding isn't the only use case. Neither is being bleeding edge. I use Mistral's models, I've built an entire internal-knowledge-pipeline of sort using Mistral's products (which involved anything from OCR, to summarization, to linking stuff across different services like Jira or Teams, etc) and I've been very happy with it. We did consider alternatives and truth to be told none was as cost-effective, fast and satisfyi…
But as you say the rest of it is good too. I use it for research and to me it does a great job, all for a fraction of the price and the carbon of the U.S. players.