Mistral Open-Sources Le Chonk: #1 Open Model on FrontierCode, Beats Kimi and DeepSeek in Coding
_AndrewZhao · x · 2026-10-29
Mistral has released the weights of Le Chonk (Mistral Large 4), targeting agentic coding and cybersecurity:
- Ranks #1 among open models on Cognition's private FrontierCode 2.0, beating Kimi, DeepSeek and GLM on Terminal Bench 4
- Uses fewer tokens per task than peers, setting a new Pareto efficiency benchmark on Artificial Analysis
- Cyberdefense capabilities validated by CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Rubrik, Zscaler and others, claimed SOTA
- Built for sovereignty: weights on Hugging Face, customizable via Mistral Forge, deployable anywhere
Available via API as well.
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