alt Hacker Newsmistral was never competitive and is getting less so, but that doesn't matter they cant be allowed to fail and have a long time to find their lane. They're smart and have an audience of like 600m people and the largest governments by spending who would use them if they were good enough.
I wonder if they could’ve caught up to Qwen & Gemma by now by now distilling them?
If their best cloud-run offering is far more intelligent than the laptop Gemma / Qwen than nevermind