[s3tt3mbr1n1]

I think it’s important to note that, at least for now, Mistral uses the big American cloud providers for inference [0].

[0] https://trust.mistral.ai/subprocessors

[ChemSpider]

Yes and they are open about it. That is why they are building their own data centers in Paris and other places.

[s3tt3mbr1n1]

That’s true, but as their model quality is behind Kimi K2.6 or Deepseek v4, I believe it makes more sense to consume those Chinese models from a European hosting company like Scaleway, than to consume Mistral’s models hosted on US cloud providers, except if you see that Mistral subscription as a kind of investment into Mistral for them to buy infra in the future. That is, if your goal is to “consume” AI on European soil.

[pixel_popping]

Behind Deepseek R1 by far, they are at least 1 year late in model's performance.