Mistral open-sources AI model despite warning it could aid cyberattacks

Summary

Mistral AI released the open weights of Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter multimodal model, on Thursday, weeks after its public preview. The company warned the model could help attackers conduct real cyberattacks, and it says future guardrail updates will reach its managed API and future releases rather than downloaded checkpoints.

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