This press release is a big change in branding and ethos for Mistral. What was originally a vibey, insurgent contender that put out magnet links is now a PR-crafting team that has to fight to pitch their utility to the public.
I was going to say the same. Incredible to see how quickly Mistral went from “magnet links casually dropped on twitter by their CTO” to “PR blog post without the model weights” in just a year.
Not a good sign at all as it means their investors are already getting nervous.
just want to point out that this isnt entirely true. pixtral was magnet link dropped recently. mistral simply has two model rollout channels depending on the level of openness they choose. dont extrapolate too much due to vc hate.
That's usually the evidence of VCs getting involved. Somber corporate tone proud on accomplishments user will find useful we continue to improve looking to the future and such.
This might suggest that they are plateauing. If you think your next model won't improve a lot, then you'll try to start earning from this current model. Luckily, we still have meta. llma3.2 is really good. and it runs on my laptop with a regular intel CPU.
