This press release is a big change in branding and ethos for Mistral. What was originally a vibey, insurgent contender that put out magnet links is now a PR-crafting team that has to fight to pitch their utility to the public.
This might suggest that they are plateauing. If you think your next model won't improve a lot, then you'll try to start earning from this current model. Luckily, we still have meta. llma3.2 is really good. and it runs on my laptop with a regular intel CPU.