Verdict
Mistral Medium 3.5 Review: The Verdict
Europe's open-weight play ships a 256k-context, multimodal coder that self-hosts on four GPUs. Here's where it actually earns a slot in the rotation — and where it doesn't.
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Open-Weight Models
Every ChicagoNoSnow review, comparison, and guide about Open-Weight Models — no hype, just receipts.
Verdict
Colibri Runs GLM-5.2 Locally on 25GB. Here's the Catch.
A single-file C engine is streaming a 744B-parameter model off an NVMe drive on hardware you already own. I read the repo like an SRE — the receipts are real, and so is the speed tax.
Explainer
Fable 5 Is Back. The World It Left Isn't.
The export ban is over and the flagship is back online. But watch the shape of the return — frontier AI now comes with a guest list, and that structure isn't going anywhere.