Mistral open-sources 1T-parameter MoE with 1M context, tops FrontierCode among open models
_AndrewZhao · x · 2026-10-29
Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4 ('Le Chonk'): a 1T-parameter multimodal MoE (52B active) with 1M-token context, built for advanced coding, reasoning and cybersecurity.
- Coding: ranks #1 on Cognition's FrontierCode among open models and sets a new Pareto-efficiency benchmark on Artificial Analysis.
- Cyberdefense: put through paces by CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Rubrik and Zscaler, claimed SOTA in cyberdefense.
- Deployment: FP8 and NVFP4 checkpoints on Hugging Face with a built-in DSpark drafter; customizable via Mistral Forge for sovereign deployments; vLLM ships Day-0 support with Pixtral vision and multi-image prompts.
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