One-chart breakdown: Mistral Large 4 vs DeepSeek, GLM and six other large MoE architectures
eliebakouch · x · 2026-10-30
eliebakouch published a detailed block-by-block architectural comparison of Mistral Large 4 and eight other large MoE models, including Mistral Large 3, DeepSeek V3.2/V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3/Flash, Muse Spark Open, Beam 1.0 and Inkling.
- Annotated per-model attention designs (MLA, GQA, KDA linear attention), Indexer/sparse attention choices, MoE routing parameters, shared experts and dense-layer configs
- Compares RoPE/NoPE choices, logit soft-capping, multi-token embeddings and other fine-grained trade-offs
- Author considers DeepSeek and GLM the closest architectural relatives to Mistral, with their flash/next-gen variants included
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