I don't think that can work without a significant lobbying push towards models running on the edge but who knows (especially since they have a former French Minister in the founding team).
I don’t think it’s fair to claim the weights are available if you need to hammer out a custom agreement with mistral’s sales team first.
If they had a self-serve process, or some sort of shink-wrapped deal up to say 500k users, that would be great. But bespoke contracts are rarely cheap or easy to get. This comes from my experience building a bunch of custom infra for Flux1-dev, only to find I wasn’t big enough for a custom agreement, because, duh, the service doesn’t exist yet. Mistral is not BFL, but sales teams don’t like speculating on usage numbers for a product that hasn’t been released yet. Which is a bummer considering most innovation happens at a small scale initially.