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The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."

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Mistral AI Releases Weights of Mistral Large 4 a.k.a Le Chonk- Europe’s “Heaviest” LLM

Mistral AI released the weights of its flagship AI model Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter LLM.

The LLM is named after a viral obese orange cat “Le Chonk”, a reference to ML 4’s 1 trillion parameter with 52 billion per token active parameters, making it one of the “heaviest” open-weight LLMs.

Meta, NVIDIA, Palantir Among 20+ Firms Urging Congress to Back Open-Weight AI

Over 20 companies told Congress that open-weight models let researchers examine model behaviour and identify vulnerabilities, while closed systems can fail in ways outsiders cannot detect. (Illustration: AI FrontPage)

More than 20 technology companies, among them Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft and Palantir, have jointly urged Congress to promote open-weight AI models, arguing that concentrating advanced capability behind a handful of closed systems weakens competition and creates single points of failure.