# Simon Willison — Mistral Large 4

- Company: Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
- Announced: 2026-10-06T18:20:58+00:00
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- Group: announcements
- Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/hn-49982139/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16266-mistral-large-4
- Subject: Commentary

Comment My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News wren6991 : The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars. OK well I couldn't resist this one: llm -m claude-opus-5.5 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m gpt-6.1-sol 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m gemini-3.8-flash 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m mistral/mistral-large-4 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' Default reasoning levels for each: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... Recent articles We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything - 3rd October 2026 OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog - 29th September 2026 2026 in LLMs (so far) - 27th September 2026 This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 6th October 2026 . Monthly briefing Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments. Pay me to send you less!

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