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  • Mistral released a public preview of Mistral Large 4 on Oct. 6 and says it has 1 trillion parameters with 49 billion active, while independent tester Artificial Analysis scored it 38 on its Intelligence Index and Vals AI ranked it 32nd of 44.
  • RealCompanion, a preprint not yet peer-reviewed, studied 27,218 messages between ten people and an AI companion and found that only 3.4% of their messages depended on something said earlier.
  • SCM, a free, open-source Mac app by developer Allen Lee, searches photos and videos in plain language on the user's own machine, though its README says it indexes one frame per video segment, not every frame.

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