Mistral unveils Large 4 'Le Chonk': 1T params, 49B active, natively multimodal open weights
marvinvonhagen · x · 2026-10-06
Mistral AI officially announces Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk:
- 1T parameters, natively multimodal, 49B active (MoE);
- Claimed as 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;
- Forged in Europe end-to-end and deployable from Europe via Mistral's own infrastructure—a data-sovereignty pitch.
Related event: Mistral Unveils Mistral Large 4, a 1T-Parameter Open Multimodal Model(42 posts)→
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