Mistral to open-source LeChonk-1T-A49B, weights due end of month
wapswaps · reddit · 2026-10-06
A Reddit post reports Mistral will release a new open-weights model, LeChonk-1T-A49B — 1T total parameters with 49B active (implying MoE) — with weights to be released by the end of the month. It lines up with the Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk" launch; if true, it would be a rare trillion-scale entry in open weights.
Related event: Mistral Unveils Mistral Large 4, a 1T-Parameter Open Multimodal Model(42 posts)→
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