Ecosia drops Mistral for Qwen, GLM and Kimi, citing a 'one-year quality gap'

Kroll's line that Mistral's models 'are a year behind competition' spread widely. The defection is a blow to Europe's sovereign-AI pitch, and it landed days after the Mistral Large 4 preview.

Commenters reported roughly halved costs on the Chinese open weights. Artificial Analysis data shows Large 4 trailing GLM-5.3 on cost-efficiency.

Mistral's chance to respond is the October 27 open-weight release of Large 4.