Open models and agentic coding hit deployment scale this week
Mistral 3, Claude Code and GPT-5.1 Codex Max, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
Mistral
Mistral 3
DEPLOYif you run open models in production
WHAT SHIPPEDMistral 3 ships three dense models at 14B, 8B, and 3B parameters plus Mistral Large 3, a sparse mixture-of-experts with 41B active and 675B total parameters, all under Apache 2.0. The 14B reasoning variant hits 85% on AIME '25.
THE CATCHThe Ministral instruct models match or exceed comparable models while often producing an order of magnitude fewer tokens, so cost per task can drop even when the model card looks similar.
IF YOU RUNedge or local workloads and want a model family with image understanding across base, instruct, and reasoning variants
SOURCEMistral, Introducing Mistral 3
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