Mistral launches Large 4 preview: 1T params, 49B active, open weights this month
uwukko · x · 2026-10-06
Mistral released a public preview of Mistral Large 4 (aka le Chonk), its largest and most capable model: a natively multimodal 1-trillion-parameter MoE with 49B active params.
- Strong across coding, agentic workflows and multimodal understanding; claims SOTA among open models on enterprise workloads like cybersecurity, finance and law, and even beats frontier closed models on visual grounding
- Weights will be released by end of month, after real-world red-teaming with cybersecurity leaders, vetted partners and state authorities
- Preview API is live on Mistral Studio
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