Mistral Large 4 Lands: 1T Params, 49B Active, Open Weights by End of October
emax · x · 2026-10-07
Mistral officially released Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk: 1T total parameters, natively multimodal, with 49B active — the best open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
- State-of-the-art on cyber defense, manufacturing and finance workloads; surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding
- Forged end-to-end in Europe, deployable via Mistral's own cloud
- API available today; open weights release end of October
Reposters joke the community memed the model (Le Chaton Fat) into existence.
Related event: Mistral Unveils Mistral Large 4, a 1T-Parameter Open-Weight Flagship(50 posts)→
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