I did a quick search here, but didn't see many posts that even mention the French AI/LLM "Mistral" (https://mistral.ai/)? What are some of the community's opinions or experiences with this? Even YT doesn't have much on it. Upside: Frontier model, open weights, options to self host, token costs (less than the big three, more than the Chinese AIs), 25% cheaper basic paid subscription ($15US instead of $20). Downside, it's in the EU, it's French (lol) and there's the whole digital wallet thing and EU nanny state mentality. I've been looking at it's features with a few chats this week and I wonder if it's a viable alternative. This is about the best video I've found on it so far: "The AI Model Nobody's Talking About — Mistral 3.5 & The Sovereignty Question" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbREGlNX8Y

I was having issues understanding this system. So I uploaded all of Jakes videos to notebook llm and used the ai studio to create me all of Jakes material explained to me easily. It has podcast, infographics, everything. I can do a video if you need one