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BRIEF NO. 61
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Friday, October 30, 2026
Mistral Large 4 “Le Chonk” lands open-weights, street prices push the RTX 5080 past $2,000, and AMD ships FSR SDK 2.4 with FSR 4.1.2 for RX 6000 cards.
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