Introducing Mistral Large 4

At last, Mistral has shipped a model that, judging by the model card, seems to compete with Chinese open-weight models–on paper, at least. It’s available via their API now, with the weights promised for the end of the month. Now they need to demonstrate that the EU can do this consistently. There are scattered labs in Prague and Germany (which never seem to make it to Hacker News, for some reason), but the perception of AI work in Europe is still pretty poor–something I’ve ranted about before, including Mistral’s sovereignty pitch, which is at least backed up by their own European datacentres (the 3,800 Grace Blackwell GPUs used to train this model are relatively modest compared with hyperscaler clusters, but they did build out the infrastructure, and that deserves recognition).