Mistral Small 4 (119B MoE) Lands to Community Shrug — 531 Upvotes of Disappointment on r/LocalLLaMA

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Mistral's new Small 4 — a 119B Mixture-of-Experts hybrid with native image input, 256k context, and configurable reasoning depth — arrived to a lukewarm r/LocalLLaMA reception (531up, 231cmts). The top comment lamented 'the last good Mistral was Nemo,' signaling that despite competitive benchmark numbers the community finds the model underwhelming relative to Qwen3.5 and GPT-OSS alternatives. This is a notable sentiment shift given Mistral's previous community esteem and mirrors similar reactions to Nemotron-3 Nano 4B last week.