> Mistral seems to have given up on reaching the frontier and focuses instead on niches like moderation, OCR, and robot navigation.
That's not actually true. They at least claim they have a new attempt at a large model they plan to release near the end of this summer.
Their last 'large' model was a flop that needed to be replaced by their Medium 3.5, but they have not yet given up on large models, even if they're also making smaller more specialized models for now (because that's somewhere they actually do rather well).
> Mistral seems to have given up on reaching the frontier and focuses instead on niches like moderation, OCR, and robot navigation.
That's not actually true. They at least claim they have a new attempt at a large model they plan to release near the end of this summer.
Their last 'large' model was a flop that needed to be replaced by their Medium 3.5, but they have not yet given up on large models, even if they're also making smaller more specialized models for now (because that's somewhere they actually do rather well).