The trick: Announced Not Shipped
Mistral calls Large 4 open-weight.
The weights are not out until October 27, and an index ranks it below a cheaper rival.
Mistral says Large 4 pushes the frontier of open-weight performance and is state-of-the-art among open models on finance and law.
Before you read on. Your call?
TRUE, BUT
$13.78
Its own announcement says the weights drop at the end of the month, and thenextweb.com dates that October 27.
The twist
On the Vals Index, Large 4 scores 48.05% at $13.78 per test, behind GLM 5.3 at 53.51% and $7.25.
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Receipts
- Supports mistral.ai:
ML4 pushes the frontier of open-weight performance.
- Context mistral.ai:
Weights drop end of this month.
- Supports mistral.ai:
It already achieves performance competitive with the strongest open-source models globally
- Supports mistral.ai:
we find it to be state-of-the-art among open models.
- Supports mistral.ai:
it reasons more precisely and with more structure than GLM-5.3
- Context mistral.ai:
1 trillion-parameter natively multimodal model with 49 billion active parameters
- Supports docs.mistral.ai:
Mistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model
- Context docs.mistral.ai:
It features 52B active parameters and 1.05T total parameters
- Context thenextweb.com:
will be available on October 27.
- Context thenextweb.com:
The benchmark results are preliminary, and the company expects them to change before the weights are released.
- Refutes thenextweb.com:
though it has not shared figures to back that up
- Refutes vals.ai:
33 Mistral Large 4 48.05% $13.78 $1.36 / $4.18
- Refutes vals.ai:
17 GLM 5.3 53.51% $7.25 $1.4 / $4.4
- Context vals.ai:
agentic model performance across finance, coding, legal, and tax tasks
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