Day: August 15, 2025

Open-source large language models (LLMs) like Mistral, LLaMA, and Falcon have enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity over the past year. Backed by communities of developers and academic institutions, these models are touted as affordable, transparent, and democratic alternatives to proprietary solutions such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude. But beneath the surface-level excitement around…