Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models
Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China.
Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral’s API. The model weights, which enable anyone to download and run it on their own servers, will be available on October 27.
The company will be spending the next three weeks testing the model under real-world conditions. Developers, cybersecurity firms, and government agencies will receive a version with fewer restrictions and more cyber features than the public API.
Large 4 is called “Le Chonk,” and the new model can process both text and images.
This time, on the label it is written”Made in Europe”
For any task, it uses only 49 billion of its trillion parameters. Moreover, the model was trained from scratch over two months using about 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral’s...
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