Mistral races China on open-weight AI, and cyber capabilities are the selling point

Mistral has launched a public preview of its trillion-parameter open-weight model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), which it is calling the most powerful of its kind built outside China. Cybersecurity is the leading pitch of the model that has been code-named “Le Chonk.” The model is available through Mistral’s API. In its announcement, the company stated...