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Oct 29, 2026

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.

Oct 29, 20265 sources

Top claims

▪Mistral Vice President of Science Pierre Stock stated that Mistral Large 4 provides Western organizations sovereign AI capabilities, offering performance competitive with Chinese models like GLM-5.3 without risk of remote access termination
▪Artificial Analysis gave Mistral Large 4 a score of 26 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index v5 benchmark at high reasoning, making it the highest-scoring open-weight model developed outside China
▪Artificial Analysis reported that seven Chinese open-weight models score higher globally than Mistral Large 4 on Intelligence Index v5, led by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and GLM-5.3 at 32 points

Topics

Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk)AI Models Coding agents AI coding Open-weight models AI cybersecurity AI benchmarks Frontier models AI sovereignty DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

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