Mistral Just Released a 1-Trillion-Parameter Model for Free!

10 stories in this episode

1. 01

   Mistral opens the weights of a 1-trillion-parameter model

   Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk"), a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model trained from scratch in Europe, under a modified MIT license; it pitches it as the best open-weight model for coding.

   0:00Read the original · Mistral AI ↗
2. 02

   Sam Altman: local inference is "quite terrible"

   On the Cheeky Pint podcast, Sam Altman argued that keeping the world's scarce DRAM in personal computers that use it about 5% of the time is "quite terrible" from a global allocation perspective, and that it belongs in the cloud.

   1:33Read the original · Cheeky Pint ↗
3. 03

   OpenAI doubles usage limits for Pro and Business Premium

   OpenAI's Tibo says usage limits are doubled for all ChatGPT Pro tiers and Business Premium, and the planned cut to Pro 200 is off; a leaker separately spotted a checkout line about one shared ChatGPT + Codex limit from December.

   2:27Read the original · Tibo (OpenAI) on X ↗
4. 04

   Reddit is moving to a mostly logged-in experience

   Reddit says it will move to a primarily logged-in experience after search referrals fell by more than a million a week in October; tests start outside the U.S. this quarter.

   3:33Read the original · TechCrunch ↗
5. 05

   Meta quietly launched an AI outfit planner

   Meta's Style Sketch builds a virtual closet from your Instagram photos, suggests outfits, offers AI try-on and plans trip outfits; it's out in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.

   4:30Read the original · TechCrunch ↗
6. 06

   Higgsfield sent ComfyUI a cease and desist

   ComfyUI says Higgsfield sent it a cease and desist over its "Open Source Higgsfield" challenge; ComfyUI is keeping the contest open, with winners announced November 6.

   5:20Read the original · ComfyUI on X ↗
7. 07

   Over 80% of Roblox's top 100 games used AI tools

   Roblox's Q3 letter says more than 80% of its top 100 games used AI tools in the past month, two near-fully AI-made games hit the top 20, and its prompt-to-game tool Build has published over 70,000 games in alpha.

   6:26Read the original · Roblox ↗
8. 08

   50 AI agents in Minecraft invented bureaucracy

   Y Combinator ran 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents in a Minecraft survival world: the first name on the roster became the unelected leader, and four agents spent 11 minutes appointing a fertilizer operator. In team games, GPT-6.1 Sol beat Claude Opus 5.5.

   7:32Read the original · Y Combinator ↗
9. 09

   A humanist got a religious exemption from using AI at work

   A nontheistic Humanist at the University of Kentucky won a religious accommodation to abstain from AI at work, which the American Humanist Association says is a first for a Humanist.

   8:56Read the original · TechCrunch ↗
10. 10

    Someone turned DOOM into a transformer

    DOOMFORMER compiles small neural networks into DOOM maps where voodoo dolls do the arithmetic; it reads MNIST digits, names levels and plays DOOM, about 23,000 times slower than NumPy.

    9:53Read the original · DOOMFORMER on GitHub ↗