Mistral Launches New AI Model to Compete with Chinese Open Systems
French artificial intelligence company Mistral has launched its latest flagship model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), which it claims is the most capable open-weight AI system developed outside of China. The 1-trillion-parameter model excels in cyber defense, coding, manufacturing, finance, and multimodal tasks. ML4 was trained using 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs over two months at Mistral's European data centers. The release comes amid a growing global competition between Western and Chinese AI developers for dominance in open models—systems that can be modified and self-hosted by users. Mistral recently raised $3.4 billion in Series D funding, valuing the company at 21 billion euros ($23.8 billion), solidifying its position as one of Europe's most valuable AI startups. Mistral plans to preview ML4 with developers, cybersecurity leaders, and state authorities before a wider release later this month.
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