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01 ·Model Families·★ MEMBER·11 min read Open vs Closed — The Economics of Releasing Weights, and the Safety Argument Why would a company give away weights that cost a fortune to train? The decisive difference between open-weight and open-source, the licence clauses that actually cause incidents, and what each side of the release debate is really claiming — plus the convergence nobody expected. From no prior knowledge. 02 ·Model Families·★ MEMBER·9 min read The Mistral Family from Scratch — Europe's Small-and-Strong Bet How a Paris startup made 'small but strong' work: the sliding-window attention behind Mistral 7B, the sparse mixture of experts behind Mixtral, the Codestral code line, and the licence policy that started at Apache 2.0 and then wandered — explained from no prior knowledge.