open-weight models
2 published articles
Labs & Research4 min read
The deprecation dossier
Mistral AI just killed half its model family. Here is what survived and why.
A mid-2026 audit of Mistral AI's model portfolio reveals 36 active models across frontier, specialist, and legacy tiers, with 19 models slated for deprecation by mid-2026. The company's strategy emphasizes small specialist models for agents and coding, while deprecating experimental variants like Magistrate and earlier Devstral versions.
2026-07-13
Google DeepMindFeatured4 min read
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 turns 26 billion parameters into a reasoning machine that fits on one GPU
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 technical report details a family of open-weight models with mixture-of-experts, 1M-token context windows, and multi-modal vision. The release signals a strategic play to bring frontier-level reasoning to developers without the cost of proprietary APIs.
2026-07-09