Samsung Electronics announced a record-breaking third-quarter operating profit of approximately $80.2 billion, surpassing 100 trillion won for the first time. The surge is attributed to increased demand for memory chips used in artificial intelligence infrastructure, with revenue reaching nearly 195 trillion won. The company has also expanded its AI investments, including a strategic partnership with Mistral AI in September.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-07
French AI company Mistral has launched a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter open-weight model nicknamed Le Chonk, with a final version due by month's end. The model is freely usable and customizable, and Mistral says it was trained from scratch with particular optimization for coding, cyberdefense, manufacturing, finance and electrical engineering tasks.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-07
Mistral AI has released a public preview of Mistral Large 4, its new flagship open-weight model nicknamed 'le Chonk.' The company says it processes both text and images, improves on cybersecurity and agentic task performance, and reaches state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like SWE-bench and Terminal Bench.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-06
French AI startup Mistral released a new open-weight model, which it says performs competitively against leading open-source models developed in China. The company positioned the release as part of its effort to offer a European alternative in the global open-source AI race.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-06
French AI firm Mistral AI announced the release of Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a multimodal model with one trillion parameters, aiming to surpass both Western and Chinese rivals. Currently accessible only through a controlled endpoint, the company plans to release the model's weights in three weeks after safety evaluations are completed.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-06
Mistral has announced a public preview of its latest large-scale AI model, ML4, also called 'le Chonk'. The model features 49 billion active parameters and demonstrates high performance across coding, multimodal understanding, and enterprise tasks such as cybersecurity, finance, and law. The weights will be released at the end of the month, with ongoing real-world testing involving cybersecurity experts and authorities.
mistral.ai
· 2026-10-06
Mistral has announced the Large 4, a multimodal AI model that combines extensive language and vision capabilities. It includes 49 billion active parameters and a vision encoder with 1.6 billion parameters, built on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. The model is designed for broad, general-purpose applications.
docs.mistral.ai
· 2026-10-06
French AI firm Mistral has unveiled Le Chonk, a one trillion-parameter model available for free, designed to rival top US and Chinese models. The model is currently in preview, with a final version expected soon, and is optimized for coding, cyberdefense, and niche industrial tasks. Mistral claims Le Chonk is the most capable open-weight model outside China, trained from scratch without relying on distillation techniques used by Chinese competitors.
wired.com
· 2026-10-06
Mistral introduced a public preview of its latest AI model on Tuesday, with the full trained parameters scheduled for release on October 27. The company aims to enhance its competitiveness in the AI market.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-06
French AI firm Mistral has introduced Le Chonk, a large open-weight model designed to enhance cybersecurity for enterprises and governments. The model, known as ML4, emphasizes user control and data sovereignty, aiming to counteract threats like model jailbreaks and cyberattacks. Mistral claims Le Chonk can compete with larger proprietary models despite using fewer computational resources.
zdnet.com
· 2026-10-06
Mistral introduced its latest AI model, ML4, which boasts 1 trillion parameters and is designed for tasks in cybersecurity, coding, manufacturing, finance, and multimodal applications. The company claims it ranks among the top open models globally and plans to release it to developers and government officials before a broader launch later this month.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-06
Mistral AI's chief executive claimed that debates around AI safety in the United States are being used by competing companies to obscure their own negligence. The remark was made in the context of ongoing industry discussions about responsible AI development and regulation.
slashdot.org
· 2026-09-29
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