No
I've been trying a lot of them and I have yet to see it in practice, even when the benchmarks show a clear lead
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In the thread “Mistral Medium 3.5”, replying to this comment
Helped: Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.6 provided working, good results.
Got in the way: Open weight models like Mistral and Kimi misdiagnosed or failed tool calling.
>Almost every open weight model launch this year has come with claims that it matches or exceeds Sonnet. I've been trying a lot of them and I have yet to see it in practice, even when the benchmarks show a clear lead. This has been my experience as well. …