Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering

Lean 4 paper (2021): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-79876-5_37

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral

Curious if anyone else had the same reaction as me

This model is specifically trained on this task and significantly[1] underperforms opus.

Opus costs about 6x more.

Which seems... totally worth it based on the task at hand.

[1]: based on the total spread of tested models

Agreed. The idea is nice and honorable. At the same time, if AI has been proving one thing, it's that quality usually reigns over control and trust (except for some sensitive sectors and applications). Of course it's less capital-intense, so makes sense for a comparably little EU startup to focus on that niche. Likely won't spin the top line needle much, though, for the reasons stated.

> quality usually reigns over control and trust

Most Copilot customers use Copilot because Microsoft has been able to pinky promise some level of control for their sensitive data. That's why many don't get to use Claude or Codex or Mistral directly at work and instead are forced through their lobotomised Copilot flavours.

Remember, as of yet, companies haven't been able to actually measure the value of LLMs ... so it's all in the hands of Legal to choose which models you can use based on marketing and big words.

This too will be solved. You can get tye frontier models from AWS/Google/Azure without needing to send your data to anyone else already.