Mistral Large 4 lands: a 1T-parameter sparse multimodal model with 49B active
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-10-06
Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Large 4 (nicknamed Le Chonk), a sparse multimodal model with 1 trillion total parameters and only 49B active per forward pass.
- Claims top open-weight performance in both the US and Europe
- Reports frontier-level results across cyber, manufacturing, finance, and visual grounding benchmarks
- Observers frame it as a win for competition: more serious European players accelerate the field
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