Mistral Launches Large 4: 1T-Parameter Multimodal MoE With 49B Active Params, Open Weights in October
MaybeLiterally · reddit · 2026-10-06
Mistral has released Mistral Large 4 (nicknamed "Le Chonk"), a natively multimodal model with 1T total parameters and 49B active, which the company claims is the strongest open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
Key points:
- Claims state-of-the-art performance on critical workloads including cyber defense, manufacturing, and finance, and surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding
- Built end-to-end in Europe and deployable from Europe via Mistral's own cloud infrastructure; available via API today
- Open-weights release planned for end of October, with private testing underway alongside cybersecurity partners
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