# Mistral: Are LLMs Commodities Now?

DevFeed: [Mistral: Are LLMs Commodities Now?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mistral-are-llms-commodities-now-33433.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/07/24/mistral>)

Published: 2024-07-24T09:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tim Kellogg](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tim-kellogg.md>)

Topics: [LLMs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llms.md>), [AI Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-strategy.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/anthropic.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [bedrock](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bedrock.md>), [groq](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/groq.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-strategy.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [bedrock](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bedrock.md>), [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [gpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpt.md>), [groq](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/groq.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [llama](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llama.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [mistral](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mistral.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion argues that the growing number of capable frontier language models, including Mistral 2 Large, GPT-4o, Llama 3.1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, makes model selection increasingly resemble a commodity decision. It recommends evaluating cost, availability, and operator trustworthiness, and favors infrastructure providers that do not also train models.

## Source excerpt

Mistral 2 Large is out, and it's right up there with GPT-4o, ...and Llama 3.1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and...yeah, there's a lot of them. These "Frontier Models" are starting to look more like commodities. And with that shift, we need to adjust AI strategy to match. There's strong arguments to make for using an operator that doesn't also train models. Read more!