Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European data centers, and Reflection AI’s Apache-licensed Beam comes from a team of DeepMind veterans, with both aiming at the Chinese labs that have dominated open AI.

Also in this episode: Ghost’s $3,499 personal AI computer and Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark, Meta’s Muse building profiles of everyone in your life, XREAL’s Aura pricing, Utah letting AI prescribe acne medication, OpenAI’s textGrain watermarks and ChatGPT image ads, and Nano Banana 2.1. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 - Cold open and episode preview

00:02:57 - Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk and open-weight AI (mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4)
Related: Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/mistrals-new-1t-mode…) · Why Mistral's 1T model is a hedge against lock-in | The Deep View (thedeepview.com/articles/why-mistral-s-1t-mode…) · Mistral: "There is no doom scenario" (sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/mistral-arthur-mens…) · Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China (wired.com/story/mistral-new-model-le-chonk-ope…)

00:16:37 - Reflection AI releases Beam (semafor.com/article/10/05/2026/reflection-ai-u…)

00:22:26 - Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily (patreon.com/cw/AIInsideshow)

00:23:39 - Ghost Core: a $3,499 personal AI computer (techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/at-19-ghost-founder-…)

00:30:00 - Ramageddon, Qualcomm and the cost of local AI

00:31:40 - Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark (blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-dgx-spark-64gb-…)

00:33:32 - Who needs an AI computer? Libraries and small businesses (blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-dgx-spark-64gb-…)

00:38:22 - AI for democracy and public benefits (nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opinion/ai-democracy.html)

00:41:40 - Trying Meta Muse as a proactive assistant (wired.com/story/muse-creates-detailed-profiles…)

00:43:22 - Muse profiles your friends and family (wired.com/story/muse-creates-detailed-profiles…)

00:50:44 - Build your own Muse Gadgets (engadget.com/2276312/meta-muse-gadgets-open-so…)

00:51:35 - XREAL Aura pricing and the market for XR glasses (engadget.com/2279737/xreals-aura-android-xr-sm…)
Related: I Put on Meta and Xreal’s XR Glasses. Face Computers Are Finally Getting Good (wired.com/story/weve-tried-meta-and-xreals-xr-…)

00:57:24 - Nolla Health: AI prescriptions for acne in Utah (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/nolla-h…)

01:00:58 - Google AI Edge Foresight: on-device notes (9to5google.com/2026/10/06/google-ai-edge-fores…)

01:02:20 - OpenAI TextGrain text watermarks (theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/06/openai-ro…)

01:03:05 - Visual ads in ChatGPT and the attention economy (bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intellige…)

01:05:21 - Google’s Nano Banana 2.1 (the-decoder.com/googles-new-image-model-nano-b…)

01:06:26 - SpaceXAI becomes SpaceXSI (reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-says-h…)

01:07:09 - Wrap-up: Jeff Jarvis and Podtuneup (jeffjarvis.com)
Related: Podtuneup (podtuneup.com)

Also discussed: Jeff: With AI, Sharing Is Caring (project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ai-sharing-data-…)

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