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If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026
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Thanks for the info. I don’t follow it closely but afaik wasn’t Mistral the only western open weight model around?
Mistral is still around, but for local LLMs... they're kinda irrelevant, sadly. Their models have regressed. I think they're being choked by ambiguous EU law.
If you're looking for "western" weights, I'd look at the Laguna series first:
https://huggingface.co/poolside
And ik_llama.cpp quantizations like this: https://huggingface.co/sigargv/Laguna-M.1-GGUF/tree/main
There's a couple of other interesting startups, but TBH its hard to keep track of where they're from.
I wasn’t aware of that.
Thank you so much for the info.