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Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race

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Mistral releases open weights for Large 4 trillion-parameter model

French AI company Mistral has released the downloadable weights for its trillion-parameter Large 4 (Le Chonk) model under a custom license, positioning it as the top open-weight model for coding outside China.

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Mistral releases open weights for Large 4 trillion-parameter model
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