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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 13, 2026Published at 2:13 AM EDT · New York
Mistral's trillion-parameter Large 4 leads non-Chinese open-weight models on security benchmarks but trails GLM, Kimi and DeepSeek on coding
Mistral has opened the model to preview API customers at $1.36 per million input tokens and says weights follow later this month after security tests. NVIDIA, ahead of its Berlin conference, presented France as an agentic-computing showcase.
Mistral AI unveiled Mistral Large 4, which it nicknamed "le Chonk", on October 6. The company called it the best open-weight model for security outside China, CNBC reported. The model is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) system with about one tril…
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