Mistral Large 4 just lost to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
Same sunset ocean prompt. Mistral rendered a blank screen. DeepSeek nailed it for 3 cents.
Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT 6 Astra built the best scenes of the four. Astra did it 3 minutes faster and for 30 cents less.
Europe's flagship model can't beat a Chinese flash model.