Mistral previews Large 4, a 1T-parameter model with weights due end of October
Mistral's new flagship is in public preview on its API at $1.36 per million input tokens. The weights are promised for the end of October.
Mistral, a European AI company, showed a very large new AI model that people can use online now. The company says you will be able to download it at the end of October. It is too big for a home computer, though.
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A European lab says a near-frontier model will be downloadable. The weights are not out yet, and the model is far too big for home PCs.
Skip: interesting for open AI, but nothing to use yet.
The details
- Mixture-of-experts: 1 trillion in total, about 52 billion active per (Mistral's page).
- price: $1.36 per million input tokens, $4.18 per million output.
- Natively handles text and images; Mistral lists 160+ languages.
- Scores 61.7% on DeepSWE v1.1 (Mistral's own numbers).
- Trained on about 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's European data centers.
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