Open-weight vendors add closed-source APIs as customer pressure grows

Mistral research lead Elie Bakrouch says open-weight vendors like Mistral adding closed-source frontier APIs reflects customer pressure, as clients increasingly demand higher-intelligence models over cheaper, less capable ones—a signal of real AI adoption.

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