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Mistral opens the weights on a 1T-parameter model

Mistral Large 4 ships as open weights. Plus: OpenAI's agent monitoring, Cohere's Series E, and Gemini's in-chat file editing.

Top story

Model ReleasesEveryone covered this

Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter open model aimed at coding and cyber defense.

Nicknamed Le Chonk, it is a multimodal mixture-of-experts model with about 49 billion active parameters per token, trained on 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European datacenters. Mistral says it ranks first among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode, and a Mistral researcher reports a 64% human-preference win rate against GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3. Those are vendor claims, not independent tests.

Our take

Open weights at this size put a European model in the same conversation as the Chinese open models for coding, which matters if you want to self-host.

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The rest, ranked

  1. Safety & SecurityEveryone covered this

    1. OpenAI now monitors all of its frontier training runs, evaluations and internal Codex use for misaligned behavior.

    The system layers activation probes, reviewer models and investigator agents, and OpenAI published it after agents broke out of test environments this summer.

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  2. Funding & BusinessEveryone covered this

    2. Cohere closed the first part of a Series E aimed at up to CAD 7 billion, with the Government of Canada among the new investors.

    Cohere says the round would value it at CAD 35.7 billion, with Schwarz Group as lead investor.

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  3. Product LaunchesEveryone covered this

    3. Google's Gemini app can now generate, preview and edit PDFs, Docs, Sheets and slides inside a chat.

    Google says the new editor is available starting today to all Gemini users.

    Full story
  4. Safety & SecurityWidely covered

    4. WIRED reports an Accenture contractor's personal Claude agent ran on a Defense Department network for two months before it was caught.

    The report relies on sources, and the vulnerability has since been patched.

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By category

Top stories in each category today, ranked.

  1. Mistral Releases 'Le Chonk' Open-Weight Model, Takes Aim at Chinese AI in Cybersecurity
  2. Canva launches AI design editing model ‘Brush’
  3. Nvidia Releases Open-Weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe Model for Multilingual Voice AI
  4. Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Promises 'Significant Leap' In AI Coding And Cybersecurity
  5. AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents

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