The Open-Weights Week That Quietly Reset the Field

If I have to do it twice, I will script it.

Mistral Large 4, Reflection's Beam and Liquid's d1 models all landed or previewed this month, and you can download them.

The automation that stuck: Running a model locally is no longer a toy. The decision models especially are small enough to sit on a laptop and route your traffic.

The failure mode to watch: The closed labs still lead on raw smarts, but the gap that matters for most tasks just got a lot narrower, and free.

Now it runs without me thinking about it.