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Mistral AI releases Large 4 preview, trillion-parameter multimodal model
Mistral AI launched Mistral Large 4 as a public preview on October 6, 2026, available through Mistral Studio and the Mistral API. The company describes the model as roughly one trillion parameters with multimodal (text and image) capabilities. Mistral is offering a 50% discount for the first two weeks and plans to release the full model weights by the end of the month. The company notes the preview represents an ongoing training process and expects improvements before the final release.
- Public preview launched October 6 on Mistral Studio and API
- Approximately 1 trillion parameter size with text and image input
- 50% launch discount for first two weeks of API access
- Full open weights release planned for end of October
- Reinforcement learning training ongoing; further improvements expected before release