While enterprise stuff is dead on arrival, their models for OCR and niche languages are indeed SOTA. Also, their local/small models are likely SOTA too if you are running in a constrained environment.
> Surely anyone with half a brain isn't going to roll the dice
the evidence points to the empty half, then
I seriously doubt Mistral was able to create something actually useful (or at least better than Aider/Claude Code/etc) and hiding behind enterprise sales is cowardly. Surely anyone with half a brain isn't going to roll the dice on something completely untested and coming from a company like Mistral. They have no track record in this area and their models aren't considered SOTA.