Episode of the video podcast **In Good Company** by **Norges Bank Investment Management** (Norwegian sovereign wealth fund), published on YouTube on **October 21, 2026**, **43 minutes**, in English. **Nicolai Tangen**, the fund's CEO, interviews **Eric Schmidt**, former CEO of Google (2001-2011).
#superintelligence#AGI#scientific discovery
Eric Schmidt (invité) · ancien PDG de Google ; Nicolai Tangen (hôte) · directeur général de Norges Bank Investment Management.
Long-form article published on **X** by **Arthur Mensch** (@arthurmensch), co-founder and CEO of **Mistral AI**, on **October 16, 2026**, in English, approximately **900 words** across seven subheadings; **97,000 views** displayed. The text responds to a thesis he says is gaining ground in Europe: leave frontier models to the Americans and the Chinese and focus on the application layer.
#AI sovereignty#frontier models#frontier AI
Arthur Mensch (@arthurmensch) — cofondateur et directeur général de Mistral AI ; article publié sur X.
Blog post from **Mistral AI** (signed "By Mistral," 11-minute read), dated **October 6, 2026**, announcing the public preview of **Mistral Large 4** (ML4, nicknamed "the Chonk" by the publisher): a natively multimodal model with **1 trillion parameters, 49 billion of them active**, trained from scratch on **3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs** in Mistral's European data centers. Preview API available on Mistral Studio; **open weights announced for the end of the month**.
#Mistral Large 4#ML4#the Chonk
Mistral AI — éditeur de modèles d'IA ; billet de blog de l'entreprise (« By Mistral »).