Morning Edition · Saturday, July 4, 2026
Mistral Open-Sources Leanstral 1.5, Saturating a Formal-Math Benchmark
The Apache-licensed Lean 4 proof model solved 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems and reports finding five previously unknown bugs across real code repositories.
Mistral released Leanstral 1.5, an updated model for automated theorem proving and autoformalization in Lean 4, under an Apache-2.0 license with weights on Hugging Face and a free API. As described in Russian-language AI coverage, the model…
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