My main beef with mistral is that they don’t bother to respond to customer inquiries for products the hide behind “reach out for pricing” terms, so even if they were better than SoTA it wouldn’t really matter.
I will pay a premium for an inferior product or service if it means I don't have to deal with sales people.
I also hate dealing with sales people and am not going to reach out to them via another avenue as they will try and posture as if they’re doing us a huge favor (in contrast to me begging gdb for gpt4 api access).