October 6, 2026
Tuesday
Artificial Intelligence
- Mistral launches Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model with 49B active parameters — Public preview is live; weights are due by month’s end, with European infrastructure and strong coding, multimodal, and cybersecurity performance.
- Google rolls out Nano Banana 2.1 with stronger visual design, mask editing, and subject consistency — The image generation and editing model begins arriving across Gemini, Search, AI Studio, Flow, Stitch, Ads, and Gemini Enterprise.