Mistral's following OpenAI's playbook: embracing the clopen source movement. Their community betrayal (sorry, "pivot") hurts, but it shouldn't. Burning goodwill has always been far more lucrative than burning an enormous check. Hopefully Meta's strategy of committing to open source as incentive for attracting top researchers (who can go anywhere and deeply want their work shared) keeps working. But I'm not hopeful. Eventually Llama-n will remain closed source, some researchers will leave, followed by a blog post word salad about safety -- or whatever in vogue pretext works best tomorrow. Ugh.