Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) stories

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

Oct 6, 2026

Mistral releases Large 4 open-weight model with 1 trillion parameters

French AI lab Mistral released Mistral Large 4 (nicknamed 'Le Chonk'), a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model in public preview, claiming it ranks among the best open-weight models globally and outperforms Chinese models on cybersecurity tasks.

Oct 6, 20264 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

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