> There’s been a relatively big reaction to Kimi K3 and Chinese open weights models, but only for financial reasons.

Let's be honest: it's financial and national security reasons.

China has a long and storied history of hacking attacks on American and western targets.

There are other parts of the world that make open weight models; Mistral is a European option. You don't see the worry about that because most people in the US are used to existing in a world order where European powers are considered ambivalent to the US at worst and holders of a special political relationship at best.

If Mistral had the same backing that Chinese AI companies did, there probably wouldn't be as much hemming and hawing. Sure, American companies would take a haircut, but that haircut wouldn't be seen as a move towards software hegemony built on top of manufacturing hegemony. It'd just be you calling into Paris or Frankfurt to talk to your vendor in the future.