Mistral open-sources Le Chonk, tops FrontierCode among open models
GuillaumeLample · x · 2026-10-30
Mistral has released the weights of Le Chonk, a new open-weights model targeting agentic coding and cybersecurity:
- Coding: ranks #1 among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 at 19.7%, ahead of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (19.3%), GLM-5.3 (17.8%), and Kimi K3 (17.3%); sets a new Pareto-efficiency benchmark on Artificial Analysis.
- Cyberdefense: claims state-of-the-art in cyberdefense, evaluated by CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Rubrik, Zscaler, and others.
- Sovereignty: weights downloadable on Hugging Face, customizable via Mistral Forge, deployable anywhere.
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