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Mistral Large 4
Estimated release
Dec 8, 2026
Early Dec 2026
Details
- Status
- Not announced; Mistral Large 3 came out Dec 2, 2025
- Current model
- Mistral Medium 3.5, 14.2 on the Intelligence Index, released Apr 29, 2026 ()
- Projected score
- About 17.2 (+3)
- Typical cycle
- About 365 days between releases
Why this date
- Mistral's newest model on the Intelligence Index is Mistral Medium 3.5 (Apr 29, 2026, 14.2), well behind the frontier
- Mistral launched its Vibe agent on Sept 8, 2026 (Work and Code modes), running on Medium 3.5
- Mistral is building out European data centres (200 MW targeted by end of 2027)
- No sign of Large 4 yet; the date assumes about a year after Large 3 (Dec 2, 2025)
Source: Mistral AI Vibe launch (Sept 8, 2026) & Artificial Analysis release history
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