Mistral AI

Nvidia's new open model activates 12 billion of its 120 billion parameters, and the small one is quantised down to 24GB

Nvidia released two open models on Wednesday: a 120-billion-parameter multimodal one for servers, and a 74-billion-parameter one squeezed into 24GB of memory with two-bit weights.

ASML says its planned output for 2027 and 2028 will not meet demand, and customers are already asking about 2030

The only company that builds EUV lithography machines is now the clearest ceiling on how fast AI chip capacity can grow. Half a billion euros of its quarterly profit came from revaluing a stake in Mistral AI.

Mistral's new trillion-parameter model does the security work Claude and GPT-6 refuse

ML4 is a 1 trillion-parameter open-weight model trained on 3,800 Nvidia chips in Mistral's own European data centres. The number the company leads with is 82% on a vulnerability test where, it says, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra score near zero because they decline the task.

Aleph Alpha has opened a 78-billion-parameter German model that uses 3.5 billion at a time

The Heidelberg lab is selling jurisdiction rather than frontier capability. Every benchmark score it published is its own, and the rivals it chose to measure against all date from the spring.

Malware that asks four AI models what to do next, and goes with the majority, turns up in Cisco research

Talos calls it the first publicly documented Windows implant to delegate command and control to language models. It has not been seen deployed against a real target.

Mozilla picks Mistral's models to run Firefox Smart Window, its AI browsing assistant

The partnership gives a European model maker a place inside a major browser. Neither company has said which Mistral models are used or what the feature will cost.