Mistral Large 4 Trails Chinese Open Models; Bitdeer Adds 67 MW in Malaysia
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · 8 min
Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter open-weight model, scores 38 on Artificial Analysis's independent index, behind four Chinese rivals. Separately, Bitdeer AI locked in a 67 MW Malaysian GB300 campus with no customer signed yet.
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Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter open-weight model, scores 38 on Artificial Analysis's independent index, behind four Chinese rivals. Separately, Bitdeer AI locked in a 67 MW Malaysian GB300 campus with no customer signed yet.
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- Bitdeer AI Adds 67 MW Malaysia Campus in Expansion Push - COMPUTE FORECAST — COMPUTE FORECAST
“Bitdeer AI, the AI cloud business of Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), has signed a 10-year data center services agreement for a 67-megawatt (MW) AI cloud campus in Malaysia. Announced Oct. 8, 2026, the agreement covers a facility known as A901 and adds another major…”
- Mistral Large 4: Pricing, Benchmarks, Open Weights — Capital & Compute
“The verdict: Mistral says it beats any open-weight model built in the US or Europe, but it is not the best open-weight model. The independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scores it 38, behind GLM-5.3 (45), Kimi K3 (44), GLM-5.3-Flash (42) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (39).…”
- AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software — Ars Technica
“Overall, the average “review process” time between a pull request getting submitted and it being merged into the codebase balloons 49 percent on average after AI agents are introduced. That effect can be seen in more granular data, too, with “the share of pull requests with…”
“This lines up with basic manufacturing principals, run the machines faster so as to give away quality leads to costs spiral in rework and inspection efforts. That or real end user demand eventually drops when quality issues are eventually experienced by customers leading to them…” — Hacker News (4 pts thread)
Our take: The factory analogy holds up. Speed up one station and the queue just moves to inspection. The one comforting twist is that the doubled change requests mean reviewers are catching the rework before customers do, at least for now.
- NO FAKES Act Status: RIAA Chief Eyes Lame Duck After Cruz — AI Musicpreneur
“One senator was enough. On September 30, 2026, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked the Senate to pass the NO FAKES Act by unanimous consent, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) objected. The bill, S. 4591, has 15 cosponsors from both parties and cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on…”