Mistral Releases Small 4: A Hybrid Reasoning Model Scoring 27 on the Intelligence Index

Mistral's newest open-weights model combines multimodal capabilities with hybrid reasoning, continuing the trend of open models closing the gap with proprietary leaders.

Mistral has released Small 4, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model that scores 27 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, as reported by @ArtificialAnlys. The model features hybrid reasoning capabilities, blending standard inference with chain-of-thought approaches depending on task complexity.

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