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Mistral Gives Away a Trillion Parameter Model for Cyber Defense

Mistral says the big closed AI models scored near zero on its exploit and patch test because they refused the job, so it handed the world its trillion parameter model instead.

Mistral Opens a Trillion Parameter Model for Cyber Defense, October 30, 2026

Mistral released the open weights for Mistral Large 4, a one trillion parameter mixture of experts model trained in Europe and pitched as sovereign cyber defense for governments and enterprises. Brian and Jessica dig into the hardware it takes to run, how its benchmarks compare with Chinese open models, the new license that keeps cloud…

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