AI News for October 7, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Mistral launches Large 4, a 1T-parameter open-weight model nicknamed 'Le Chonk': Mistral released a public preview of Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a natively multimodal model with 1T total and 49B active parameters.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI releases 722 math manuscripts solving hundreds of open problems: OpenAI published solutions to long-standing math problems produced by an unreleased internal frontier model: 722 manuscripts grouped into 372 result families, posted on GitHub with Lean proof formalizations, reasoning summaries and compute estimates.
[RESEARCH] Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M open multimodal embedding model: Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, an Apache 2.0 model built on the Gemma 4 architecture that maps text, code, images, audio and video into one embedding space.
[NEWS] SpaceX seeks $40B to buy Nvidia chips, with Apollo leading: SpaceX is talking to banks and investors about raising $40B to buy Nvidia chips.
[NEWS] Google signs 20-year nuclear deal with Constellation for 890MW of new capacity: Google signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation to upgrade 11 reactors at six sites in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
[NEWS] DeepSeek's funding round nears $15B, double its target, as CATL joins Tencent: DeepSeek's round could approach $15B, about double its original $7.5B target, and has already passed $12B.
[TOOLS] Google launches Nano Banana 2.1 and halves image generation prices: Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash that replaces February's Nano Banana 2.
[NEWS] Lambda raises up to $4B at $14.5B valuation ahead of 2027 IPO: AI cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and Blackstone, in what could be its last private round before a planned 2027 IPO.
[NEWS] Anthropic widens access to its most advanced cyber models with US government: Anthropic is expanding access to its most advanced AI models, letting a select group of organizations test its cutting-edge cyber capabilities in collaboration with the US government.
[RESEARCH] Google Research turns Earth AI geospatial models into public health forecasting tools: Google Research showed how its Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM) improves public health surveillance.

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