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19 Oktober 2026
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The Open-Weights Week Changed What 'Free' Means

When Mistral ships weights, 'free to run' stops being a slogan.

Mistral Large 4's promise of open weights by month's end is the latest in a run of models you can actually host.

Reflection's Beam, Clef, and Strands Decider are already downloadable or self-hosted in some form.

'Free' used to mean a capped free tier someone could revoke. Now it can mean a model on your own machine.

The catch is ops. Running a frontier-ish model is a job, not a click, and most people won't do it.

But for the ones who will, the balance of power shifted this month in a way the chat UIs don't show.

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