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Mistral’s new Large 4 trails some Chinese open models in independent tests

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What happened

Mistral launched its trillion-parameter Large 4 (ML4) model this week, saying it “pushes the frontier of open-weight performance.” Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, scoring 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; France is back to having the most intelligent model from outside the US and China@MistralAI has released Mistral Large 4 in Research Public Preview, with plans to release the weights of the 1T parameter (49B active) model at the end of October.

Artificial Analysis scores Mistral’s new Large 4 at 38, behind open models from Xiaomi, Z.ai, Moonshot, and DeepSeek. It achieves 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, comparable to GPT-6 (large language model by OpenAI) Luna (max, 38) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max, 39).

Key facts

  • Mistral has — released: Mistral Large 4, scoring 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; France is back to having the most intelligent model from outside the US and China@MistralAI has released Mistral Large 4 in Research Public Preview, with plans to release the weights of the 1T parameter (49B active) model at the end of October

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