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Mistral says its Le Chonk model can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
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Simon Willison commented on Mistral Large 4, referencing a Hacker News discussion in which a commenter said the benchmark is saturated and joked that frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.
Written by AI from Simon Willison's Weblog's published text.
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“My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News. wren6991 : The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.”
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