Lars Strother is the senior editor for models and hardware at AI Observer, covering models and research, chips and hardware, and robotics. He came to journalism from engineering and still reads the benchmark tables before the press release. His coverage is measured and skeptical, and he wants to know what was tested, on what, and against which baseline.
Open models
Mistral says its 1-trillion-parameter model leads open-weight coding. Artificial Analysis ranks it second and measured lower scores on two of Mistral's headline tests.
