Mistral launches Le Chonk: 1T-parameter multimodal model, open weights due end of October
MistralAI · x · 2026-10-06
Mistral announced Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): 1T total parameters, 49B active, natively multimodal.
- Claims to be the best open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks
- SOTA on cyber defense, manufacturing and finance workloads; surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding
- Built end-to-end in Europe, deployable via Mistral's own cloud
- API available now; open weights release end of October
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