Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model // AI Inside #150
October 08, 202601:10:02

Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model // AI Inside #150

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European data centers, and Reflection AI’s Apache-licensed Beam comes from a team of DeepMind veterans, with both aiming at the Chinese labs that have dominated open AI.

Also in this episode: Ghost’s $3,499 personal AI computer and Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark, Meta’s Muse building profiles of everyone in your life, XREAL’s Aura pricing, Utah letting AI prescribe acne medication, OpenAI’s textGrain watermarks and ChatGPT image ads, and Nano Banana 2.1. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Livestream opening
00:12 Welcome to AI Inside
02:20 Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk and open-weight AI — https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/
15:59 Reflection AI releases Beam — https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2026/reflection-ai-unveils-an-open-source-answer-to-chinese-labs
21:48 Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily — https://www.patreon.com/cw/AIInsideshow
23:04 Ghost Core: a $3,499 personal AI computer — https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/at-19-ghost-founder-raises-11-million-to-build-a-3499-computer-for-your-personal-ai/
29:24 Ramageddon, Qualcomm and local AI costs
31:05 Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-dgx-spark-64gb-sync/
32:52 Who needs an AI computer? — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-dgx-spark-64gb-sync/
37:46 AI for democracy and public benefits — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opinion/ai-democracy.html
41:04 Trying Meta Muse as a proactive assistant — https://www.wired.com/story/muse-creates-detailed-profiles-of-all-your-friends-and-family/
42:51 Muse profiles your friends and family — https://www.wired.com/story/muse-creates-detailed-profiles-of-all-your-friends-and-family/
50:11 Build your own Muse Gadgets — https://www.engadget.com/2276312/meta-muse-gadgets-open-source-smart-home-link/
50:59 XREAL Aura pricing and XR glasses — https://www.engadget.com/2279737/xreals-aura-android-xr-smartglasses-will-cost-you-at-least-1279/
56:48 Nolla Health: AI prescriptions for acne — https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/nolla-health-ai-can-now-prescribe-acne-drugs-in-utah-without-doctors?leadSource=article-gifting
1:00:25 Google AI Edge Foresight: on-device notes — https://9to5google.com/2026/10/06/google-ai-edge-foresight/
1:01:51 OpenAI TextGrain text watermarks — https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/06/openai-rolls-out-weak-sauce-watermarking-for-ai-text/5301257
1:02:33 Visual ads in ChatGPT — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-will-show-visual-ads-in-chatgpt-while-you-generate-images/
1:04:52 Google’s Nano Banana 2.1 — https://the-decoder.com/googles-new-image-model-nano-banana-2-1-generates-better-images-for-less-money/
1:05:54 SpaceXAI becomes SpaceXSI — https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-says-he-will-rename-spacexai-spacexsi-2026-10-04/
1:06:37 Wrap-up: Jeff Jarvis and Podtuneup — http://jeffjarvis.com/