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You're both saying the same thing. Mistral used to be completely uncensored, it's moreso now, as you've described, but still less censored than OAI.
Chasing private money is a USA thing, and limited EU thing.
In China, the "money" comes from government, and you see the models conform to government instead of credit card processors (lol), plc related. Plus China culturally just doesn't care about copying things, and selling for less is almost a point of pride.
If Western companies don't figure it out, we'll never see a public released model good at ERP as hosted SOTA model. It'll just be local tunes, while other countries create them instead, which will increasingly be run on local machines.