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Mistral Large 4 'Le Chonk' arrives as the top open model outside China with improved coding performance and 63% lower cost-per-task

carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:10:58 GMT

Mistral has released the downloadable open weights for its trillion-parameter Large 4 model under a custom license, giving enterprises a new option for running and customizing a near-frontier AI model themselves. Independent tests now show that its biggest advances over the preview involve efficiency, lower costs and fewer fabricated answers, alongside a small increase in overall capability.

Agents are rewriting the book on security. Can your data layer keep up?

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:30:00 GMT

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Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, retaking the world's no. 1 spot on updated, harder benchmarks — but access is limited

carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:25:49 GMT

Google announced its latest and most intelligent frontier AI model today: Gemini 4 Carbon promises improvements in cybersecurity and complex software engineering at the same introductory token prices as its previous flagship, Argon. It also claims the top spot in the world on most common enterprise benchmarks according to both Google's and outsiders' tests.

GitHub Copilot Fusion mixes models to achieve near-Opus 5.5 coding performance at half the per-task cost

carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:01:25 GMT

Microsoft subsidiary and popular code repository hosting service GitHub is rolling out a system that decides which AI models should handle a software development task — and, according to independent testing, can approach the performance of a leading coding agent for roughly half the expense.

AI agent access is moving faster than identity controls can govern

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:30:00 GMT

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Liquid AI’s new LFM3 models put browser agents, voice commands, and image recognition onto local devices

carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:37:51 GMT

Liquid AI is introducing LFM3, a family of compact AI models designed to move more enterprise work onto company-controlled hardware, with company-reported results suggesting its smallest text model can outperform substantially larger rivals on selected browser automation and software tool-use tasks.

Nvidia and Oracle expand Vera Rubin cloud infrastructure, pitching better utilization as enterprises report idle GPUs

carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:20:19 GMT

Nvidia and Oracle are expanding their AI infrastructure partnership with the general availability of Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and standalone Vera CPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, alongside plans to expand their Superclusters to multi-gigawatt scale.