Alphabet shares fell 13% on Thursday, erasing roughly $500 billion of market value. Cash flow sank to minus $9.1 billion in the third quarter as capex rose to $51.3 billion, and Google said AI Mode queries were eating into traditional search.
Pierre Stock, Mistral's vice president of science, called it "a pivotal moment in the global AI leadership race" when he told reporters about the release at a press briefing. The French lab on Thursday released the weights for Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model it calls Le Chonk, a French wordplay on the company's cat mascot.
Mistral says the model ranks as the best open-weight model for coding. Its launch post puts the model effectively tied with China's GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index.
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Meta's 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open runs at home on two linked M5 Ultra Mac Studios that Apple has not yet priced. Hosted access costs $4.25 per million output tokens. Apple's own speed tests and today's cloud prices decide which workloads make the purchase pay.
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