Llama 4 vs DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen3 vs Mistral Large 3: Four Open-Weights Flagships, Four Different Bets
Every few months, four labs ship a similar-sounding open-weights flagship — MoE, long context, reasoning mode, multimodal. The benchmarks keep getting passed back and forth. The thing that actually decides which one you run in production is the axis each lab is betting on next: multimodal ecosystem, inference economics, agentic reasoning, or permissive-license frontier intelligence.