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Mistral releases Small 4 under Apache 2.0 and joins NVIDIA’s Nemotron Coalition

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Mistral released Mistral Small 4 under the Apache 2.0 licence, combining the reasoning of Magistral, the image understanding of Pixtral and the agentic coding of Devstral in one model with configurable reasoning effort. Mistral also joined NVIDIA’s Nemotron Coalition as a founding member.

Why it matters

Europe’s leading lab put its reasoning, vision and coding models into one openly licensed release.

When
16 Mar 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0195
Who
Mistral AI, NVIDIA

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Mistral AI. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0195: “Mistral releases Small 4 under Apache 2.0 and joins NVIDIA’s Nemotron Coalition.” wheresthe.ai, 16 Mar 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/eu-mistral-small-4-nvidia-coalition-2026-03/ (source: Mistral AI: Introducing Mistral Small 4).

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