Mistral AI releases weights for improved Mistral Large 4
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Mistral AI releases weights for improved Mistral Large 4

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TechNews EditorialOct 29, 2026 · 1 min read
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Why it matters

The released weights let organizations customize or host Mistral Large 4 themselves, while Mistral reports gains in coding and defensive security.

The facts

  • Mistral AI has released the weights of an updated Mistral Large 4 following its public preview.
  • The company reports a 41% score on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up 13 percentage points from the preview.
  • Mistral reports a 51% score on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index and plans further guardrail updates.

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Mistral AI has released the weights of an updated Mistral Large 4, its 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model. The company says the update improves coding, defensive cybersecurity and reasoning efficiency. It follows a public preview released earlier this month.

Mistral says it made the gains after three weeks of additional reinforcement learning. On the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, the model scored 48% while using 47% fewer tokens per task on average than GLM-5.3, which the company says had an effectively tied score. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, its score rose 13 percentage points from the preview to 41%, while its output token use fell 30%.

The company says Mistral Large 4 now supports three reasoning modes, giving developers a choice between performance and cost. It has released the model’s weights for organizations that want to customize or host it themselves.

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Mistral reports security test results

On the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index, which tests vulnerability discovery, reproduction and patching, Mistral Large 4 scored 51%, according to the company. Mistral also reports an average refusal rate of 96.6% on malicious cybersecurity requests in its tests across JailbreakBench, StrongREJECT and AgentHarm.

Mistral says it observed the model refusing black-box attacks against live targets while monitoring traffic after the preview. It also says it sees potential for the model to help conduct real attacks. The company is giving vetted enterprise design partners, including Orange Cyberdefense, preview access to a specialized variant for advanced security work. Testing of that variant is restricted to owned or explicitly authorized systems in controlled environments.

The updated Mistral Large 4 weights are available now. Mistral says it is modifying the model’s guardrails and will continue updating them in the months ahead.

What this means

On October 6, 2026, Mistral unveiled Mistral Large 4 trained in European data centers, preceding its Timestral forecasting model release on October 16 and Voxtral 3 speech models on October 20. Mistral achieved its latest gains after three weeks of additional reinforcement learning, adding three reasoning modes that offer choice between performance and cost. On the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, the model scored 48% using 47% fewer tokens per task on average than GLM-5.3, while output token use on Terminal-Bench 4.0 fell 30%. For advanced security work, vetted enterprise design partners such as Orange Cyberdefense received preview access to a specialized variant restricted to testing on authorized systems in controlled environments.

Source: Mistral AI

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