Two Weeks Off AI Notes: Starting Something New Is Hard

Life has been busy and I barely had energy to watch AI updates. I wrote half of last week&rsquo;s (12.05) notes and never finished, so here comes a catch-up after two weeks away. Last week saw a bunch of new models or reports: DeepSeek, Mistral, QwenVL. I skimmed DeepSeek-3.2&rsquo;s report and nothing really grabbed me; Mistral feels forced, with the only bragging point being a programming win…