Mistral Large 4 ships: 1T params, 49B active, best open weights model from Europe
mark_k · x · 2026-10-06
Mistral releases Mistral Large 4 (aka Le Chonk): 1T parameters with 49B active, natively multimodal, claimed best open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. SOTA on cyber defense, manufacturing, and finance workloads, beats closed frontier models on visual grounding, fully built and deployable in Europe.
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