Where are the competitive models from Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, Canada, India, the UK? From anywhere that isn't China or the US?

There are none. Mistral Small 4 is pareto-competitive in its pricing bracket at $0.15/$0.60, at worst it's second to Gemma 4 26B A4B. The above countries have never had a model that is even close to being so.

This particular Mistral Medium looks to be uncompetitive at that pricing. I'm surprised it's so expensive given its size. Wonder if we'll see other providers offer it for cheaper.

but that doesn't mean Mistral has never produced anything useful.

This is the bar for anybody that's not the frontier labs.

I mean, at least we're not melting the planet trying to predict the next token that sounds about right.

> This is the bar for Europe, huh?

A few months ago China was being criticized left and right on how somehow it was not able to compete, and once DeepSeek showed up then all the hatred shifted onto how China was actually competing but exploring unfair competitive advantages.

Funny how that works.

Also, aren't the likes of OpenAI burning through over $2 of investment for each $1 of revenue?

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I don't mind Chinese but US under Trump is a fascist state based on ethnic and theological grounds pretty much or soon would be if electorate doesn't decide otherwise.

China and rest of the world has sane leadership that aren't mentally retarted.