Mistral releases open weights for 1T-parameter Large 4 'Le Chonk'
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Mistral Large 4 is a multimodal MoE with ~1T total and 49B active parameters and a 1M-token context, released under the Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License. It scores 82% on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index and ranks #1 on Cognition's FrontierCode among open models.
How this story unfolded
5 days · 8 reports · 8 community posts · 16 of 18 shown
- Oct 29
Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by Defenders.mistral.ai
Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Racewired.com
Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Facehuggingface.co
Mistral’s Large 4 open weights arrive with a 1-point coding lead over GLM-5.3: “There’s nothing you can’t do with this model that you can do with competitors.”thenewstack.io
Mistral Large 4 updated weights and lower pricing on AI Gatewayvercel.com
Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecuritytechcrunch.com
Mistral Large 4 'Le Chonk' arrives as the top open model outside China with improved coding performance and 63% lower cost-per-taskventurebeat.com
- Oct 30
- Nov 3
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