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October 8, 2026

New models, tools and announcements every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.

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Mistral returns with Mistral Large 4 ↗

Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a one trillion parameter model with 49 billion active parameters. It is available through their API, and Mistral promises to release the open weights at the end of the month.

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