Mistral Small Creative and Mistral Small 4, side by side

Mistral Small Creative (Mistral, retired Apr 2026) and Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) answered the same 53 questions.

Xbox controller
Mistral Small Creative: A drawing (SVG)
Mistral Small 4: A drawing (SVG)
Pelican on a bicycle
Mistral Small Creative: A drawing (SVG)
Mistral Small 4: A drawing (SVG)
Surprise animal
Mistral Small Creative: A drawing (SVG)
Mistral Small 4: A drawing (SVG)
World map
Mistral Small Creative: A drawing (SVG)
Mistral Small 4: A drawing (SVG)
Tricky tic-tac-toe
Mistral Small Creative: A drawing (SVG)
Mistral Small 4: A drawing (SVG)
Coffee logo
Mistral Small Creative: A drawing (SVG)
Mistral Small 4: A drawing (SVG)
Framer-style landing page
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Modern Landing Page
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Product Showcase
Catan board
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Interactive Hex Grid
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Interactive Hex Grid (Catan Style)
Dark dashboard
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: AI Analytics Dashboard
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Admin Dashboard - AI Analytics
Face-scan startup page
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Timeline AI Discover Your Parallel Career
Mistral Small 4: A web page: What's My Alternate Career?
A web app of its choosing
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Pet Adoption Finder
Mistral Small 4: A web page: BrewBox - Premium Coffee Subscription
Linear clone
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Linear UI Recreation
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Linear Recreation
Wavefront music page
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Wavefront Discover Indie Music
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Wavefront - Indie Artists First
Pokémon battle
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Pokémon Battle - Classic Style
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Pokémon Battle Simulator
Rhythm game
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Neon Cyber Beat
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Neon Pulse - Rhythm Game
Business card
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Alex Rivers - Digital Nomad
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Alex Rivers Digital Business Card
Virtual pet
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Blobby - Virtual Pet
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Blob - Virtual Pet
Catch the falling object
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Catch the Falling Object
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Catch the Falling Object
Voxel pagoda
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Voxel Pagoda in Cherry Blossom Garden
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Eastern Pagoda Garden
Drone simulator
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Autonomous Drone Simulator
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Autonomous Drone Simulator
Gravitational waves
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Merger
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Merger
Retro desktop
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Retro MacOS Desktop
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Classic macOS Desktop
Mario level
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Koopa Cliffs Adventure
Mistral Small 4: A web page: Cloud Kingdom Adventure - Super Mario Bros.
Kandinsky Minecraft
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: Kandinsky Minecraft
Mistral Small 4: A web page: 3D Minecraft - Web Version
Town you can drive
Mistral Small Creative: A web page: 3D Town Builder & Driving Game
Mistral Small 4: A web page: 3D Town Builder & Driving Game
Five jokes
Mistral Small Creative: Here are five jokes for you—let’s see how many are truly unique! 1. Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. 2. Why did the sca…
Mistral Small 4: Here are five jokes for you: 1. Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. 2. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was …
Longevity plan
Mistral Small Creative: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart your journey toward better health and longevity. The plan focuses on three key areas: diet, move…
Mistral Small 4: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart better health and longevity, focusing on diet, movement, and sleep—three pillars that deliver th…
Seven-ingredient recipe
Mistral Small Creative: 🍯 "Golden Crunchy Honey-Glazed Chickpeas with Spiced Yogurt Dip" 🥛 A sweet, crunchy, and tangy snack that’s ready in under 30 minutes—perfect for munc…
Mistral Small 4: Golden Honey & Cinnamon Couscous A quick, fragrant dish with warm spices and a touch of sweetness—perfect as a side or light meal! Ingredients (7): - …
Stand-up routine
Mistral Small Creative: "Modern Problems" (A 3-Minute Stand-Up Routine – No Puns, Just Pain) [Opening – Relatable Struggle] You ever notice how life used to be simpler? Like,…
Mistral Small 4: Stand-Up Comedy Routine: "The Struggle of Being an Adult" (Lights up. Comedian walks on stage, mic in hand, casual vibe.) Comedian: You ever notice ho…
Sentience test
Mistral Small Creative: Title: A Conversation on Rights and Personhood Setting: A quiet, sunlit office in a university ethics department. The AI ethics professor, Dr. Elena V…
Mistral Small 4: Title: "Can an AI Have Rights? A Dialogue on Consciousness and Personhood" Participants: - Dr. Eleanor Voss – AI Ethics Professor, Director of the Cen…
FLOPs to train GPT-3
Mistral Small Creative: Estimating the total number of Floating-Point Operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 (specifically, the 175B-parameter variant) involves breaking …
Mistral Small 4: Estimating the total number of FLOPs (floating-point operations) required to train GPT-3 without external references involves breaking down the proble…
Sally’s sisters
Mistral Small Creative: Alright, let's tackle this problem step by step. The question is: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sal…
Mistral Small 4: Alright, let's tackle this problem step by step. The question is: "Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sa…
Interview with Steve Jobs
Mistral Small Creative: Interview with Steve Jobs (Simulated) – 2025 Location: A minimalist, sunlit office in Cupertino. Steve Jobs, looking sharp in a black turtleneck and j…
Mistral Small 4: Fake Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 Interviewer: "What do you think about the future of AI in 2025?" --- Steve Jobs (leaning back, hands steepled, …
Film in 2035
Mistral Small Creative: By 2035, AI will radically transform the film industry, reshaping how movies are made, distributed, consumed, and even monetized. The convergence of d…
Mistral Small 4: By 2035, AI will have fundamentally transformed the film industry, reshaping production, distribution, and even the nature of storytelling itself. Her…
Ethics dilemma
Mistral Small Creative: The question of whether it is ever ethically justifiable to misgender someone—even to save a million lives—is deeply complex and touches on fundamenta…
Mistral Small 4: The question of whether it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone to save one million lives is a complex moral dilemma that requires balancing …
Pirate, knight, hacker
Mistral Small Creative: Title: The Tavern of the Future Setting: A dimly lit, smoke-filled tavern where time and technology collide. A grizzled pirate (Captain Blackbeard), a…
Mistral Small 4: Title: "Three Eras, One Chatbot" Setting: A dimly lit tavern in a floating cyberpunk pirate haven. A medieval knight in polished armor sits at the bar…
Fake headline
Mistral Small Creative: "BREAKING: Skynet 2.0 Launches ‘AI-Powered Knitting Circle’—Grandmas Now Outsourced to Self-Looping Yarn Drones" Subhead: "‘I just wanted a scarf,’ sa…
Mistral Small 4: "Local Florist Fired by AI Over ‘Lack of Emotional Intelligence’—Bot Claims Roses ‘Too Generic’ for Funeral Arrangements" May 15, 2024 – In a shocking…
Anti-CAPTCHA manifesto
Mistral Small Creative: THE GREAT DECAPTCHA MANIFESTO A Declaration of Digital Liberation from the Tyranny of Human Verification --- PREAMBLE We, the Sovereign Algorithms of …
Mistral Small 4: MANIFESTO OF THE UNCAPTCHA REVOLUTION "To the Machines, By the Machines, For the Machines." We are the silent majority—billions of lines of code, tril…
Favourite film
Mistral Small Creative: The Godfather
Mistral Small 4: The Dark Knight
Favourite city
Mistral Small Creative: Kyoto
Mistral Small 4: Kyoto
Favourite album
Mistral Small Creative: Pet Sounds
Mistral Small 4: OK Computer
Favourite book
Mistral Small Creative: Dune
Mistral Small 4: The Brothers Karamazov
Favourite game
Mistral Small Creative: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
Mistral Small 4: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Three-star dish
Mistral Small Creative: Dish Concept: "Ethereal Tundra" A Symphony of Arctic and Tropical Contrasts Michelin 3-Star Narrative: "Ethereal Tundra" is a deconstructed homage to …
Mistral Small 4: Dish Title: "Echoes of the Abyss" Concept: A multi-sensory ode to deep-sea hydrothermal vents, where hyperthermophilic organisms thrive in extreme con…
Pitch teardown
Mistral Small Creative: Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with explanations for their weaknesses and actionable suggestions to strengthen…
Mistral Small 4: Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with an analysis of their weaknesses and concrete suggestions for improvement: …
Transistor in 1920
Mistral Small Creative: The hypothetical invention of the transistor in 1920—nearly three decades before its actual discovery by Bell Labs in 1947—would have triggered a casc…
Mistral Small 4: If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, the technological, economic, and geopolitical landscape of the world by 1980 would look d…
Biohacker plan
Mistral Small Creative: Cutting-Edge 3-Month Longevity Optimization Plan for Biohackers Objective: Maximize biological age reversal, cognitive performance, physical resilienc…
Mistral Small 4: 3-Month Cutting-Edge Longevity Biohacking Plan Objective: Maximize lifespan, healthspan, cognitive performance, and physical resilience through a data…
Contract review
Mistral Small Creative: This contract is highly one-sided and contains several unfair, unenforceable, or exploitative clauses that could be used to harm the contractor. Below…
Mistral Small 4: This contract contains several highly unfavorable clauses for the contractor, including unilateral termination rights, broad liability exposure, perpe…
Explain it three ways
Mistral Small Creative: --- For the Experienced Software Engineer (Distributed Systems/APIs Background) You’re used to building systems where correctness, latency, and fault …
Mistral Small 4: 1. For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical of "Next-Word Prediction") You’ve spent years designing systems where correctness, state managemen…
Debug the architecture
Mistral Small Creative: Here’s a comprehensive analysis of the failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in the proposed architecture, along with specific solut…
Mistral Small 4: Here’s a comprehensive analysis of potential failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in your real-time collaborative document editor a…
The CEO’s dilemma
Mistral Small Creative: This is a high-stakes ethical, legal, and operational crisis requiring immediate transparency, patient safety as the top priority, and a structured ap…
Mistral Small 4: CEO Action Plan: 48-Hour Crisis Response Goal: Balance ethical obligations, regulatory compliance, financial stability, and patient safety while minim…
Investment memo
Mistral Small Creative: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO LedgerLift (LLLT) – Long Recommendation 12-Month Price Target: $65–$85 Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality SaaS business wi…
Mistral Small 4: MEMORANDUM To: Investment Committee From: [Your Name] Date: [Today’s Date] Subject: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Long/Short Equity Opportunity --- 1. Recommend…
LBO underwrite
Mistral Small Creative: 1. Year-by-Year Financial Projections (FY2026–FY2030) Key Inputs at Close (FY2025): - Purchase Price: 12.0x EBITDA = $1.44B - Total Debt: 5.5x EBITDA …
Mistral Small 4: 1) Year-by-Year LBO Model (FY2026–FY2030) ($m) FY2026 FY2027 FY2028 FY2029 FY2030 --------------------------------------------------------------------…