French startup Mistral AI, a new force in the open-source AI space, recently announced plans to go public rather than being acquired. Mistral's CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch stated in an interview with Bloomberg Television, "We are not selling." Earlier rumors suggested that Microsoft might acquire the company, partly because Microsoft invested €15 million (approximately $15.6 million) in Mistral and established a collaboration with them.

Recently, the domestic large model DeepSeek V3 has drawn industry attention due to its outstanding performance in the AI arena. As the only open-source model to break into the top ten, it not only surpassed o1-mini but even exceeded Claude 3.5 Sonnet in various fields, including programming and mathematics. To verify its actual capabilities, a series of comparative tests were conducted. In the basic comprehension ability test, both models exhibited different characteristics. Faced with the Chinese riddle 'Xiaoming's mother has three children', DeepSeek V3 performed...