Mistral AI·2026-03-17 05:00· 2026-03-17

Introducing Mistral Small 4

AI summary

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4, the next major version in the series and its first model to combine Magistral reasoning, Pixtral multimodal capabilities and Devstral agentic coding in one model, under Apache 2.0.

Selection record

Threshold 60Official, first-handFirst 78Second 78

AdmittedSum of both 156 ≥ twice the threshold 120

Source tier: Official, first-hand; this tier's threshold is 60
Pre-filter: passed：发布Mistral Small 4模型，含架构与评测
Why it was chosen: Combining these capabilities in one open model reveals trade-offs in unifying smaller models.

A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.

Source: Mistral AI · mistral.ai

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