Is Mistral late or savvy? (opens in new tab)

For the past few years, the most visible corner of the AI market has been easy to caricature: OpenAI gets the consumer attention, Anthropic gets the developer love, Google gets the benefit of the doubt with increasingly capable models and a complementary product suite, and everyone else gets to explain why they’re not dead yet. That’s unfair, of course, but not completely wrong. In AI, attention compounds and it’s leading to outsized revenue, with both So it’s easy to underrate Mistral AI. Ho...