Mistral launches 1T-parameter MoE model Large 4, claims best open-weights model in US/Europe
Bam4d · x · 2026-10-06
Mistral announced Mistral Large 4 (aka Le Chonk): 1T total parameters, natively multimodal, 49B active.
- Claims it is the best open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks, state-of-the-art on critical workloads like cyber defense, manufacturing and finance, and surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding
- Built end-to-end in Europe, deployable via Mistral's own cloud infrastructure
- Available via API today; open-weights release coming end of October
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