France's Mistral AI Announces New Large Model, Mistral Large 4
French start-up Mistral AI has announced the multimodal Mistral Large 4, reportedly at around 1 trillion parameters, aimed at competing with developers in the US and China.
French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI has announced a new multimodal model, Mistral Large 4, abbreviated as ML4. According to the headline of the Kursors.lv report, the model has 1 trillion parameters.
A race between closed and open models
Competition between closed and open AI models is gathering pace. Europe has so far lagged behind in this contest, but the new announcement could change that.
The aim: a "third way"
The new model is intended to outpace rivals in both the United States and China. In doing so, it embodies the "third way" in AI development that French President Emmanuel Macron has previously called for.
The source excerpt gives no further details about the model's capabilities, availability or terms of use.