Benchmark Firm Gives Mistral Large 4 Preview a 38 Intelligence Score

Artificial Analysis published its benchmark analysis of Mistral Large 4 Preview on October 6, 2026, scoring the model 38 on its Intelligence Index and describing it as the most intelligent AI model from outside the US and China. The analysis reports that Mistral Large 4 Preview scores 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index version 4.3.2, a result the benchmarking firm describes as comparable to GPT-6 Luna (max) at 38 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) at 39.

In its framing, France is back to having the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, ahead of countries such as South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. On Artificial Analysis’s model page for the preview, that score ranks the model number 64 of 225 models in its comparison class, above a class median of 26.

The page lists the preview as a reasoning model released October 6, 2026, with text and image input, text output, and service through two API providers. According to the published Intelligence Index methodology, version 4.3.2 combines ten evaluations — AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench…