Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model

October 8, 2026 · 1 h 14 min

Show notes

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European data centers, and Reflection AI’s Apache-licensed Beam comes from a team of DeepMind veterans, with both aiming at the Chinese labs that have dominated open AI.

Also in this episode: Ghost’s $3,499 personal AI computer and Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark, Meta’s Muse building profiles of everyone in your life, XREAL’s Aura pricing, Utah letting AI prescribe acne medication, OpenAI’s textGrain watermarks and ChatGPT image ads, and Nano Banana 2.1. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 - Cold open and episode preview

00:02:57 - Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk and open-weight AI
Related: Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals | TechCrunch · Why Mistral's 1T model is a hedge against lock-in | The Deep View · Mistral: "There is no doom scenario" · Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

00:16:37 - Reflection AI releases Beam

00:22:26 - Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily

00:23:39 - Ghost Core: a $3,499 personal AI computer

00:30:00 - Ramageddon, Qualcomm and the cost of local AI

00:31:40 - Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark

00:33:32 - Who needs an AI computer? Libraries and small businesses

00:38:22 - AI for democracy and public benefits

00:41:40 - Trying Meta Muse as a proactive assistant