if it's not available yet why have a 'try it today' header at all?

> "Try it today" > > There is still more to come. As we work toward releasing the weights, we will share further details on the model architecture, additional benchmarks, and our post-training methodology.

You can try it on their website, https://console.mistral.ai/playground

It's just that the open-weights aren't yet available (although the long delay is slightly annoying).