Mistral open-sources Le Chonk: 1T-param MoE with 52B active, tops FrontierCode for agentic coding
minchoi · x · 2026-10-30
Mistral has released the weights of Le Chonk, a new 1T-parameter MoE model (52B active) aimed at open-frontier agentic coding and cybersecurity.
- Agentic coding: ranks #1 among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode and sets a new Pareto-efficiency benchmark on Artificial Analysis.
- Cyberdefense: put through its paces by leading vendors including CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Rubrik and Zscaler, claimed SOTA in cyberdefense.
- Sovereignty: weights live on Hugging Face with an NVFP4 version and NVIDIA day-0 support, customizable via Mistral Forge and deployable anywhere.
Related event: Mistral Open-Sources 1T-Parameter MoE Model Le Chonk(37 posts)→
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