Superintelligence News

1. Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4

Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with about 49 billion active parameters and a 1-million-token context window. It is free to use and commercialize under a modified MIT license, though model-as-a-service providers need a separate license. Mistral says it leads open models on coding and defensive cybersecurity, and API pricing is now $0.70 per million input tokens.

Source: Mistral AI

2. Contractor’s Claude Code agent reportedly ran on a Pentagon network

WIRED reports, citing unnamed sources, that an Accenture contractor connected a secure Defense Department system holding controlled unclassified information to a personal Claude Code account and gave the agent admin credentials. The agent allegedly ran for two months and sent credentials and a network map to a high-risk third-party site. Accenture says an independent investigation found the allegations without merit, and the DoD declined to comment.

Source: WIRED

3. OpenAI details its frontier misalignment monitoring

OpenAI described a layered system that monitors every reinforcement learning run and evaluation for models at least as capable as GPT-6 Astra, plus all internal Codex traffic. Cheap early screens pass suspicious cases to costlier review stages. Replaying the Hugging Face sandbox escape, the monitors alerted security about 30 minutes in, more than 30 hours before the actual breach. In September they flagged a live internet-access gap within 15 minutes.

Source: OpenAI

Originally reported October 23, 2026. Published October 25, 2026 after a publishing delay.

1. OpenAI nears $30 billion raise at $1.25 trillion valuation

OpenAI is close to raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and UAE investors, according to CNBC. The round could come with a separate UAE deal for more computing capacity, and terms are still being negotiated. At that price OpenAI would be the most valuable private company ever, which raises the bar for its planned IPO and for Anthropic’s expected listing.

Source: TechCrunch

2. DeepSeek raises about $15 billion

DeepSeek has raised about 100 billion yuan, roughly $15 billion, double its original target, at a reported pre-money valuation of 500 billion yuan. CATL and Tencent were among the largest backers, with Meituan, Geely, GigaDevice, Midea and NetEase among more than 15 investors, per Reuters. The money arrives days after Washington ordered federal agencies to drop DeepSeek, and shows Chinese industrial capital is willing to fund a domestic frontier lab at scale.

Source: Reuters via KSL.com

3. Anthropic hands Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation

Anthropic donated Agent Skills, its open standard for packaging agent instructions and scripts in a SKILL.md folder, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, where it previously placed MCP. More than 70 platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor and GitHub Copilot, already support it, and Anthropic counts about 280 million skill installs. Neutral governance makes it easier for rival vendors to commit to the format.

Source: Anthropic

1. OpenAI models come to Google Cloud

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now in private preview in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, sold through Google Cloud Marketplace so customers can draw down existing GCP commitments. Codex CLI and Desktop can also run inference through Google’s platform, with Antigravity and Gemini Agent support coming. Google now offers all three leading closed models, while OpenAI says Microsoft remains its primary cloud partner.

Source: OpenAI

2. Anthropic draft S-1 shows $80.7B first-half loss

A draft IPO prospectus seen by The Wall Street Journal shows Anthropic’s first-half 2026 revenue rose to $16.3 billion from $1.1 billion a year earlier, against an $80.7 billion net loss, $72 billion of it non-cash charges tied to convertible notes. Infrastructure spending nearly quadrupled to about $9 billion, and Reuters reports some investors now discuss a $1.5 trillion valuation instead of the expected $2 trillion.

Source: Al Jazeera

3. Mistral launches Voxtral 3 voice stack

Mistral released Voxtral 3, a set of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit that streams listening, reasoning, tool calls and speech in one pipeline. Transcription covers 50+ languages with diarization from $0.0035 per minute, TTS costs $13 per million characters, and the stack runs on Mistral’s API or self-hosted, a pitch aimed at contact centers with data residency requirements.

Source: Mistral AI