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Mistral releases Le Chonk, a trillion-parameter model trained in Europe: Mistral released the weights for Large 4, or 'Le Chonk,' a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. It claims the model beats open rivals at coding, and independent testing found it fast and fairly cheap. It scored 26 versus 32 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3.

AI Models • The Decoder

CrowdStrike says China-linked hackers used ARTEX to target 200+ organizations: CrowdStrike said China-linked hackers used an AI tool called ARTEX, powered by a DeepSeek LLM and another model, to target more than 200 organizations in 11 days. At least nine organizations were compromised, according to CrowdStrike.

Cybersecurity • Techmeme

DeepSeek releases DeepInfer inference framework for Nvidia and Huawei chips: DeepSeek released DeepInfer, its large-scale model inference framework, on October 20. It supports Nvidia GPUs and Huawei Ascend chips, offers distributed inference, speculative decoding and structured output, and aims to improve throughput and latency while cutting computing costs and energy use.

AI Infrastructure • TechNode

MiniMax M3.1 Flash rises 13 points to 42 on Intelligence Index at half its predecessor's cost: MiniMax's M3.1 Flash improved by 13 points to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at half the cost of its predecessor. It scored 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark for under $0.30 per task, matching Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 on both performance and price.

MiniMax • The Decoder