Mistral Large 4 'Le Chonk': 1T params, 49B active, Europe's best open-weights model
giffmana · x · 2026-10-07
Mistral released Mistral Large 4 (aka Le Chonk): a natively multimodal sparse model with 1T total parameters and 49B active, forged end-to-end in Europe and deployable via Mistral's own European infrastructure. Mistral claims it is the best open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks, SOTA on cyber defense, manufacturing and finance workloads, and surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
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