Who cares? It's a crappy model and not even truly open-weight. Mistral gets absolutely mogged by Deepseek and GLM. They have never been competitive and never will be. While China and US are competing for the olympic podium, Mistral is still in the kiddy pool.

At least the FLUX vision models from Europe are pretty good.

It beats z.ai's GLM 5.3, which everyone agreed was interesting a couple of weeks ago when it was released.

It's exactly where a model trained with these resources in a modern and reasonable way should be expected to be.

I also think it demonstrates that GLM 5.3's performance is probably not primarily due to distillation but simply the performance one can get out of a a model of that size and with that architecture.