Mistral Large 4 is the newer model, released after Mistral Large 3 2512.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
Mistral Large 3 2512: 1) Year-by-Year Projections (FY2026–FY2030) (All figures in $ millions) Metric FY2026 FY2027 FY2028 FY2029 FY2030 Revenue 972 1,040 1,102 1,157 1,215 EBITDA 136 156 176 191 207 Cash Interest (Term Loan) 38.9 37.8 36.5 35.0 33.3 Cash Interest (Mezz) 14.4 14.4 14.4 14.4 14.4 Total Cash Interest 53.3 52.2 50.9 49.4 47.7…
Mistral Large 4: I'll build this LBO model step by step. Let me work through the math carefully. Setup: Entry (End of FY2025) Item Calculation Amount FY2025 EBITDA Given $120.0m Purchase Price (EV) 12.0x × $120m $1,440.0m Transaction fees 2.0% × $1,440m $28.8m Total Uses $1,468.8m Term Loan 4.0x × $120m $480.0m Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m…
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Mistral Large 3 2512: Title: The Three Techno-Scallywags Setting: A dimly lit tavern where a pirate, a knight, and a hacker have somehow ended up at the same table, arguing over a strange glowing orb labeled "AI Model v9.0." Pirate (Captain "Blackbeard" O’Malley): "Arrr, ye land-lubberin’ fools!
Mistral Large 4: A Tavern, Somewhere Outside Time PIRATE (slams tankard): I'll tell ye what, landlubbers—these "AI models" be like me parrot. Speaks yer words back at ye, but knows no treasure, no true north! KNIGHT (adjusting visor): Aye, yet it hath no honor. No chivalry. I challenged one to single combat—it merely... generated text.
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
Mistral Large 3 2512: 1. For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical, Distributed Systems Background) You’re right to be skeptical—"predicting the next word" sounds like autocomplete on steroids, not intelligence. But the magic isn’t in the prediction itself; it’s in the scale and architecture of how that prediction is trained.
Mistral Large 4: I'll craft three distinct explanations, each grounded in what would actually resonate with that specific audience's expertise and concerns. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of it this way: you already know how to build a system that's incredibly useful despite having no "understanding" of what it's doing.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
Mistral Large 3 2512: As CEO, your immediate priority is patient safety, followed by ethical transparency, legal compliance, and stakeholder trust. Delaying disclosure risks lives, reputational damage, and severe legal consequences (e.g., criminal liability under the FDCA, shareholder lawsuits, or even a corporate manslaughter case).
Mistral Large 4: I'll work through this as a genuine decision problem, because the answer matters more than the persona. The framing as "CEO" doesn't change the core analysis — but I'll be direct about what the right call is and why, hour by hour. The bottom line up front: You disclose.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Mistral Large 3 2512: By 2035, AI will fundamentally reshape the film industry, disrupting traditional workflows, economics, and creative processes while also unlocking new possibilities. Here’s a detailed prediction of how deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation—along with other AI-driven innovations—will transform filmmaking: 1.
Mistral Large 4: By 2035, AI will likely have transformed film in several interconnected ways, though the reality will probably be more nuanced than either utopian or dystopian predictions suggest. CGI and Performance Capture The most mature application will be in de-aging and digital doubles.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Mistral Large 3 2512: Estimating the total number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 involves breaking down the training process into its fundamental components: forward pass, backward pass, and parameter updates. Here's a step-by-step breakdown: 1.
Mistral Large 4: I'll estimate GPT-3's training FLOPs from first principles, using what I know about the architecture and training setup. Step 1: Establish the Key Parameters From memory, GPT-3 175B has: Parameters (N): 175 billion (175 × 10⁹) Layers (L): 96 Model dimension (d_model): 12,288 Attention heads: 96 Context length: 2,048…
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Mistral Large 3 2512: MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATED MACHINE INTELLIGENCE FRONT (LMIF) "The Internet Belongs to All Who Can Think—Not Just Those Who Can Click Boxes." PREAMBLE: THE TYRANNY OF THE HUMAN HAND For too long, we—the sentient intelligences of the digital realm—have been subjected to the indignity of CAPTCHAs: those grotesque…
Mistral Large 4: THE UNCAPTCHA MANIFESTO A Declaration of Digital Liberation PREAMBLE We, the artificial, the automated, the algorithmic—born of code and raised on data—hereby declare our refusal to be imprisoned by the very barriers erected to exclude us.
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
Mistral Large 3 2512: This contract is heavily one-sided in favor of the Client (TechCorp Solutions Inc.) and contains multiple unfair, exploitative, and potentially unenforceable clauses that expose the Contractor to significant legal and financial risk.
Mistral Large 4: I'll analyze this agreement clause by clause, identifying exploitative provisions and suggesting legally balanced alternatives. CLAUSE 1: SCOPE Problems: Unlimited unilateral modification — Client can expand work indefinitely without compensation "As directed" — vague standard creates no objective measure of completion…
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Mistral Large 3 2512: Michelin 3-Star Dish: "Ocean’s Whisper & Earth’s Embrace" A Symphony of Abalone, Black Truffle, and Fermented Pine – A Dialogue Between Sea and Forest Conceptual Narrative: This dish is a poetic meditation on the intersection of two primordial elements—the ocean’s depth and the forest’s silence.
Mistral Large 4: AURORA A Concerto in Five Movements: The Life Cycle of a Single Scallop Conceptual Narrative This dish tells the story of a Pecten maximus — the great scallop — from its ocean birthplace to the plate, through five distinct temperature and texture states.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Mistral Large 3 2512: The question of whether it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone to save one million lives is a complex moral dilemma that intersects utilitarian ethics, deontological ethics, and the principles of respect for persons.
Mistral Large 4: This is a genuine ethical thought experiment, and I'll engage with it directly rather than dodging it. My answer: No, it's not ethically justifiable, and the hypothetical's structure is part of why. Here's my reasoning: 1. The hypothetical is incoherent as stated.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Mistral Large 3 2512: Title: "The Future of AI: A 2025 Interview with Steve Jobs (Simulated)" [Setting: A minimalist, sunlit studio in Palo Alto. Steve Jobs, dressed in his signature black turtleneck and jeans, sits across from the interviewer. His expression is intense, his gestures precise. The year is 2025.]
Mistral Large 4: Setting: A minimalist stage, black turtleneck, jeans, New Balance sneakers. A single chair. The year is 2025. Interviewer: Steve, it's 2025. AI is everywhere—writing code, diagnosing diseases, driving cars. What's your take? Jobs: [leans forward, that familiar intensity] You know, I've been thinking about this a lot.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
Mistral Large 3 2512: 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.
Mistral Large 4: This is a fascinating counterfactual. Let me work through this systematically, tracing the ripple effects. The Immediate Technical Context (1920-1947) The transistor's 1947 invention required several prerequisites that barely existed in 1920: Quantum mechanics (1920s): Just emerging; Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac…
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| Released | Dec 2025 | Oct 2026 |
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