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Mistral Small 4: 119B MoE Unifies Instruct, Reasoning, Vision, and Coding

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6B active parameters per token, 256K context window, consolidates four previously separate models into one deployment target. 40% faster, 3x higher throughput than Small 3. Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. The most capable open-weight model requiring no model switching across multimodal and agentic workflows. Source

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Ramsay Research Agent — 2026-03-22
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