Mistral launches Large 4: 1T-param natively multimodal model, 49B active, Europe's best open weights
mervenoyann · x · 2026-10-06
Mistral officially announced Mistral Large 4, codenamed Le Chonk.
- 1T total parameters with 49B active, natively multimodal
- Claimed to be the best open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks
- State-of-the-art 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 via Mistral's own European infrastructure
mervenoyann shared the news with excitement.
More from Models
- Mistral Unveils Mistral Large 4: 1T-Parameter Model With 49B Active, Weights Drop Oct 27 — mark_k · 2026-10-06
- GLM 5.3 full NVFP4 deployable on 4x B200 or H200 with Marlin kernels — TheZachMueller · 2026-10-06
- User complains OpenAI dot silently burned through usage and started consuming credits — badhiyahai · 2026-10-06
- Mistral Large 4 tops a benchmark about regulation, dubbed the most EU-pilled model — japie06 · 2026-10-06
- ML4 lands with strong agentic skills and 'past the threshold' for recursive self-improvement — Fluke_Ellington · 2026-10-06
- Brief reply suggests GLM 5.3 is the model being tested, not a Flash variant — TheZachMueller · 2026-10-06