Is Mistral late or savvy?

For the past few years, the most visible corner of the AI market has been easy to caricature: OpenAI gets the consumer attention, Anthropic gets the developer love, Google gets the benefit of the doubt with increasingly capable models and a complementary product suite, and everyone else gets to explain why they’re not dead yet. That’s unfair, of course, but not completely wrong. In AI , attention compounds and it’s leading to outsized revenue, with both OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly rushing to