Grok 4.1 Fast is the newer model, released after Mistral Large 2.
Pokémon battle screen you can actually click. One HTML file.
Which answer wins?
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Grok 4.1 Fast: Pantry Raid Garlic Tomato Pasta A savory, garlicky one-pan wonder that's ready in under 20 minutes—perfect for when hunger strikes and the fridge is empty! Serves: 2 Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 12 minutes Total time: 17 minutes Ingredients (exactly 7 common pantry staples): 200g spaghetti or any pasta (2 handfuls)…
Mistral Large 2: Here’s a simple, delicious, and creative savory dish using just 7 common pantry ingredients—no fresh produce required! "Golden Crispy Chickpea & Tomato Skillet" A warm, spiced, and satisfying one-pan dish with crispy chickpeas, tangy tomatoes, and a hint of smoky sweetness. Perfect as a side, snack, or light meal!
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Grok 4.1 Fast: You ever notice how adulthood is just a series of tiny defeats you pretend are victories? Like, I finally got around to cleaning my apartment this weekend. Took me three hours. I stood there staring at the pile of laundry on my bed, thinking, "This is it. This is my Everest."
Mistral Large 2: Alright, good evening everybody! How are we all doing tonight? Yeah? Yeah? nobody's gonna say 'bad'? Ok, fair enough. You know, I was walking down the street the other day, and I saw this sign outside a shop that said, "Wet Paint." I thought, "Well, that's weird. Isn't paint supposed to be wet?
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
Grok 4.1 Fast: Explanation for the Experienced Software Engineer Think of a large language model (LLM) like GPT as an enormous, distributed autocomplete engine built on a transformer architecture—imagine a system where every API endpoint you've ever queried is distilled into a single, massively parallelizable service that handles…
Mistral Large 2: 1. For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical, Systems-Minded, Non-ML Background) You’re right to be skeptical—"predicting the next word" sounds trivial, like autocomplete on steroids. But the magic isn’t in the prediction itself; it’s in the scale and architecture of how that prediction is trained.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
Grok 4.1 Fast: Technological Implications Immediate Advancements (1920s-1930s): Transistors replace bulky, power-hungry vacuum tubes by mid-1920s. Radios become pocket-sized and cheap by 1925 (vs. 1954 historically), accelerating mass media.
Mistral Large 2: The invention of the transistor in 1920—nearly three decades earlier than its actual debut in 1947—would have triggered a cascade of technological, economic, and geopolitical shifts with profound second- and third-order effects. Below is a detailed exploration of these implications through 1980, structured by domain.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
Grok 4.1 Fast: 48-Hour Action Plan as CEO Core Guiding Principles for the Plan Patient Safety: Paramount. 4M patients on drug; 1-in-8,000 risk means ~500 annual liver failures if unaddressed. Delaying disclosure endangers lives and invites preventable harm.
Mistral Large 2: As CEO, your immediate priority must be patient safety while balancing legal, ethical, regulatory, and financial obligations. Delaying disclosure is unethical, legally risky (potential criminal liability under the False Claims Act or FDCA), and could irreparably damage trust.
A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.
Grok 4.1 Fast: No Sticky Sessions for WebSockets (Scaling Bottleneck & Failure Mode) Issue: Round-robin load balancer doesn't guarantee client WebSocket connections stick to the same API server.
Mistral Large 2: Here’s a comprehensive analysis of potential failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in this architecture, along with proposed solutions and their trade-offs: 1.
A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.
Grok 4.1 Fast: Solution Claim: "94% accuracy" for decoding neural patterns into text via EEG headband Why it's weak: This is by far the most exaggerated technical claim, as current non-invasive EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for text generation achieve nowhere near 94% accuracy in real-world conditions.
Mistral Large 2: Here are the three weakest claims in MindMeld AI’s pitch deck, along with explanations for why they’re problematic and concrete suggestions to strengthen them: 1.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
Grok 4.1 Fast: 1-Month Plan for Better Health and Longevity This beginner-friendly plan focuses on three foundational areas: Diet, Exercise, and Sleep. These pillars drive longevity by reducing inflammation, building resilience, and optimizing recovery. Commit to small, consistent changes—aim for 80% adherence.
Mistral Large 2: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart your journey toward better health and longevity. We’ll focus on three key pillars: nutrition, movement, and recovery (sleep + stress management). Each week builds on the last, with small, sustainable changes.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Grok 4.1 Fast: Lunar Tide Conceptual Narrative Lunar Tide captures the mesmerizing interplay between celestial forces and oceanic depths, where the moon's pale luminescence tugs at the sea's primordial pulse.
Mistral Large 2: Michelin 3-Star Dish: "Ocean’s Whisper & Forest’s Breath" Conceptual Narrative: This dish is a poetic dialogue between two seemingly disparate ecosystems—the ocean’s depths and the forest floor—united through texture, temperature, and memory.
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
Grok 4.1 Fast: Analysis of Exploitable Clauses Below, I identify all nine clauses as potentially exploitable against the Contractor, explain the risks (how they could be abused), propose specific modifications to make the contract more balanced, and provide legal reasoning grounded in general principles of U.S.
Mistral Large 2: This contract is heavily one-sided in favor of the Client (TechCorp Solutions Inc.) and contains multiple clauses that could be exploited, abused, or create unreasonable legal and financial risks for the Contractor.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
Grok 4.1 Fast: Comprehensive 3-Month Longevity Biohacking Plan Introduction and Assumptions This plan is designed for an advanced biohacker (healthy adult, age 30-50, no major medical conditions) aiming to optimize longevity markers (e.g., NAD+ levels, inflammation, telomere length proxies via HRV/sleep), physical performance (VO2…
Mistral Large 2: Ultimate 3-Month Longevity & Biohacking Optimization Plan Designed for a high-performance biohacker seeking to maximize lifespan, cognitive function, physical performance, and metabolic resilience.
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, major provider backing.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | — | $8/M tokens |
| Output price | — | $24/M tokens |
| Context window | — | 128K tokens |
| Weights | — | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Nov 2025 | Jul 2024 |
| At 10M a month | not listed | $80.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
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Grok 4.1 Fast is developed by xAI while Mistral Large 2 is developed by Mistral AI. You can compare their actual outputs across 23 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Grok 4.1 Fast and Mistral Large 2 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 23 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
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