Mistral AI Drops New Open-Source Model. The Internet Is Not Impressed, Except for One Thing

Mistral AI Drops New Open-Source Model. The Internet Is Not Impressed, Except for One Thing

Mistral AI Drops New Open-Source Model. The Internet Is Not Impressed, Except for One Thing Price data byDecryptNewsArtificial IntelligenceMistral AI Drops New Open-Source Model. The Internet Is Not Impressed, Except for One ThingMistral Medium 3.5 is the rare Western entry in the open-source top tier, but it costs multiples more than Chinese rivals that beat it on benchmarks.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezApr 30, 2026Apr 30, 20264 min readAI agents. Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128 billion parameter dense model priced at $1.50 input / $7.50 output per million tokens, far above comparable Chinese alternatives. Chinese open-source models—Qwen, GLM, MiMo-V2—dominate the leaderboard top, leaving Mistral as a lonely West

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