Mistral is cool and I wish them success but it consistently ranks extremely low on benchmarks while still being expensive. Chinese models like DeepSeek might rank almost as low as Mistral but they are significantly cheaper. And Kimi is the best of both worlds with incredible benchmark results while still being incredibly cheap

I know things change rapidly so I'm not counting them out quite yet but I don't see them as a serious contender currently

Arcee is working on that, see a blog post about their newest in progress model here: https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large

Its still not fully post trained and its a non-reasoning model, but its worth keeping an eye on if you dont want to use the Chinese models that currently are the best open-weight options.

To be fair there are lots of worse models than OpenAI's GPT-OSS-120b. It's not a standout when positioned next to the latest releases from China, but prior to the current wave it was considered one of the stronger local models you can reasonably run.