Mistral AI Drops New Open-Source Model. The Internet Is Not Impressed, Except for One Thing

In brief

• Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128 billion parameter dense model priced at $1.50 input / $7.50 output per million tokens, far above comparable Chinese alternatives.
• Chinese open-source models—Qwen, GLM, MiMo-V2—dominate the leaderboard top, leaving Mistral as a lonely Western holdout.
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