Seems hard to get customers at that price range when you're competing with open source models that are 1/2 - 1/3 the price but with similar capabilities.

People usually buy the cheapest, like Deepseek or GLM or they spend on Anthropic/OpenAI subs.. Are these models in the middle getting any users?

On a side note, I wonder if this was the popular free Space Bunny model that left openrouter yesterday.

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PunchTornado 5 hours ago | parent [-]

If you are a EU company worried about your data then mistral is your only option. Think about EU military companies. They can't use US and Chinese models.

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c0rruptbytes 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

why couldn’t people just use chinese models rehosted in the EU? They’re open weights so anyone can serve them for any data residency requirement

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TuxSH 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> why couldn’t people just use chinese models rehosted in the EU?

Guess what Mistral themselves do?

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einarfd 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you want to use the model for something, where hiring a Chinese national to work on these tasks is a no go. Using a Chinese model is going to be a problem as well. Some tasks and industries are so sensitive, that countries will not allow you to risk, that the model is aligned with Chinese interests and not yours.

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myaccountonhn 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I feel like that would be a big strategic mistake if you're European defense companies. What if the Chinese just stop releasing open models?

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randomNumber7 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think you misunderstand how data processing works in a LLM. You absolutely can download the weights of a chinese model and run it on hardware you control.

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		And Mistral also do exactly that. They host GLM-5.3.