Mistral leads a crowded model release day

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Mistral’s trillion-parameter release led a day that also brought Google’s smaller on-device model. Anthropic outlined tiered access for cyber work, while AI curators highlighted an audit that reported widespread faults in an agent benchmark.

Mistral and Google release new models

Mistral announced Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model with 49 billion active parameters, and says it is the strongest open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. Mistral plans to release the weights at the end of October. Google says its 740-million-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 handles text, code, image, video and audio tasks in a modular form intended for on-device use.

1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.

Mistral AI, Mistral AI lab · On X

handles text, code, image, video, and audio tasks within a lightweight, modular 740M parameter form factor

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO · On X

Our story: Mistral Large 4 Released: 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Aims for 'Third Way' in AI

Anthropic expands controlled cyber access
Anthropic, Rohan Paul
Audit challenges agent benchmark grading
Rohan Paul, elvis

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