Mistral open-weights Le Chonk: 1T-parameter multimodal model tops open coding, security benchmarks
_AndrewZhao · x · 2026-10-30
Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), its flagship 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal model, after a public preview earlier this month.
- Continued RL scaling brought major gains in coding and defensive cybersecurity, with improvements reportedly still accelerating.
- Mistral claims it leads open-weight benchmarks in coding and defensive security, with three reasoning modes balancing cost and performance.
- The model is fully open-weight, European-trained, and supports self-hosted deployment aimed at sovereign AI use cases.
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