It seems mistral finally released their own version of a small 3.1 2503 with CoT reasoning pattern embedding. Before this the best CoT finetune of Small was DeepHermes with deepseeks r1 distill patterns. According to the technical report, mistral baked their own reasoning patterns for this one so its not just another deepseek distill finetune.

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