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LFM3 vs Mistral Large 4: which delivered after 7 days?
Neither has a verdict yet: both are stamped Too early, with fewer than about five solid user reports each.
| LFM3 | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Too early | Too early |
| Claims held | 2 | 1 |
| Claims mixed | 0 | 0 |
| Claims failed | 0 | 0 |
| Claims unclear | 1 | 2 |
| User reports | 6 | 3 |
| Launched | 27 Oct 2026 | 29 Oct 2026 |
| Last stamped | 30 Oct 2026 | 31 Oct 2026 |
No. 013 · Liquid AI
LFM3
Day 4 of 7It is as small and long-context as promised, but every comparison with the previous model is still Liquid's own, and one hands-on test found it fails coding and multi-step tasks.
- Launched
- 27 Oct 2026
- Stamped
- 30 Oct 2026
- Claims
- ✓2 held · ~0 mixed · ✗0 failed · ?1 unclear
- Reports
- 6 (0 praise · 1 problem · 5 mixed)
What they claimed
“a new tri-hybrid architecture and training recipe allow LFM3-1.7B to outperform our previous LFM2.5-2.6B while using 35% fewer parameters.”? Unclear
“the text model fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit precision.”✓ Holds
“256K context window for the text model.”✓ Holds
No. 017 · Mistral AI
Mistral Large 4
Day 2 of 7Weights are out, but few hands-on reports yet; the cybersecurity claim leans on one index and is untested by users.
- Launched
- 29 Oct 2026
- Stamped
- 31 Oct 2026
- Claims
- ✓1 held · ~0 mixed · ✗0 failed · ?2 unclear
- Reports
- 3 (0 praise · 3 problem · 0 mixed)
What they claimed
“ML4 is one of the world's strongest AI models for cybersecurity.”? Unclear
“We will release the weights by the end of the month.”✓ Holds
“significantly outperforming any open-weight model developed in the US or Europe”? Unclear
Both stamps come from the public user reports linked on each receipt, under the same method. Verdicts are opinion and are never paid for.
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