Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories

My perception using them is that they have comparable models to OpenAI and others when it comes to general use 'chat' tasks, but they don't match something like gpt-5 Pro or high thinking when you need something more powerful.

Perhaps the problem is that you need to be competing right at the frontier, or not at all. I put Cohere in a similar bucket.

A year ago I wanted to use and like Mistral, mostly because it was an upstart competitor to OpenAI. Yet I found its coding ability sadly lacking. I haven’t tried since. I also have seen them on the HN front page very rarely. I’m curious too how well they stand up these days.