Mistral Says Trillion-Parameter 'Le Chonk' Is Best Open-Weight Model Outside China
Wired AI · rss · 2026-10-06
Mistral has released "Le Chonk," a new trillion-parameter open-weight model that it claims is the best open-weight offering outside China. With the release, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it's "still in the race" to build frontier-level AI. The claim is a direct challenge to Chinese models' dominance of open-weight leaderboards; real-world performance awaits third-party benchmarks.
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