> That said, it hardly seems like the innovative underdog some comments here make it out to be.

It's definitively not a revolution, but it is a major jump forward compared to Mistral Medium 3.5.

Worth to notice that they explicitly said they still refining the model, so we might expect something a little bit better at the end of the month

For something trained on a limited budget and 4000 GPUs, it is quite respectable.

I'm just wondering if it's really the result of impressive innovation, in line with comments saying that Mistral might in the future beat a bankrupt OpenAI due to being more profitable or efficient.

Or if it's more a situation where I could have Opus 5.5 go through recent papers from the Chinese labs to apply these to a new large training run, resulting in a model that performs similarly to Mistral Large 4.

I honestly don't know.