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Re:Voxtral 3 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:56AM (#50177016)
Mistral 4 Large earlier this month[1]:

> Weights drop end of this month.

> (..) and it continues to improve rapidly as we refine it.

There’s also Shieldstral[1] (2 months ago) and Timestral (week ago; already mentioned).

It’s a shame Voxtral isn’t open weight though.

[1] https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268

Re:Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:25PM (#49337116)
Very exciting indeed. It is in the works. Their current dense offering, Gemma 4 31B, sits at ~1800t/s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308715

> we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members

emphasis on _new_ subscriptions but otherwise yes that’s exactly it.

Re:Kalman Filter Explained Simply on Monday February 12, 2024 @01:04PM (#39348150)
Do you have a source for the claim that they use the A15 in the iPad mini? It stood out to me that they left the details of the SoC out of the announcement.