- Home
- Encyclopedia
- Mistral
RSI Encyclopedia · Lab
Mistral
Mistral is a French SI developer that makes the Mistral Large models. Its Containment Board grade is D (GPA 1.14), rank 8 of 11.
- Overall grade
- D
- Board rank
- 8 of 11
- Models listed
- 1
- Rogue Log cases
- 0
The lab
Mistral is a French SI developer that makes the Mistral Large models. Mistral signed the Seoul commitments and the EU Code of Practice but has published no frontier safety framework, and FLI ranked it last of nine companies. It red-teamed Mistral Large 4 with partners and state authorities before releasing the weights but published little about that testing.
Safety grades
On the Containment Board Mistral gets D overall (GPA 1.14), rank 8 of 11. Each grade, its reasons and its sources are on the Mistral report card.
- Safety frameworkD
- Outside testingC-
- Shutdown and pauseD-
- Incident disclosureD+
- Whistleblower protectionD
Notable facts
- FLI's Summer 2026 index graded Mistral F overall, last of the nine companies it reviewed.
- Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Oct 29, 2026 and describes it as leading open-weight models in cybersecurity.
Rules where it is based
- In force EU AI Act (GPAI) European Union
- Voluntary or guidance GPAI Code of Practice (Safety and Security) European Union
- In force AI Omnibus European Union
Sources
- AI Safety Index Summer 2026, full report: Whistleblowing Protection indicators and Reporting Culture and Whistleblowing Track Record Future of Life Institute ·
- Frontier AI Safety Commitments, AI Seoul Summit 2024 UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ·
- Frontier AI Safety Policies (index of published company frameworks) METR ·
- AI Safety Index, Summer 2026 Edition (scorecard) Future of Life Institute ·
- Introducing Mistral Large 4 Mistral ·
- Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now open weight Mistral ·
The RSI Encyclopedia
Keep reading
207 entries on the terms, labs, models, laws and events of rogue SI, plus every case in the Rogue Incident Database.
Enter RSI
Every term, lab, model and law
Browse the full A to Z index, filter by category or search for a name.