Comment by lifeisloving
9 hours ago
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.
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.
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
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.
> why couldn’t people just use chinese models rehosted in the EU?
Guess what Mistral themselves do?
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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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.
This strategy only works as long as China continues publishing weights. Domestic training capabilities are one way of mitigating that risk.
And Mistral also do exactly that. They host GLM-5.3.