11 October 2026
Mistral and Reflection AI release large new open-weight AI models
First reported
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- Mistral released a preview of Le Chonk, a model with about 1 trillion parameters (the learned numbers that define a model's size).
- Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter model that it says matches GLM-5.2 while using 3 to 4 times less computing power to run.
