Mistral Unveils 1.05T-Parameter ‘Le Chonk’ MoE Model in Public Preview

📰 Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence. 📰 Source: Feed: All Latest 🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/mistral-new-model-le-chonk-open-source-china-us-frontier/ # AI # ArtificialIntelligence

❗️Mistral drops a 1T-parameter “Le Chonk” Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Large 4, internally nicknamed “Le Chonk”, a 1 trillion-parameter natively multimodal model with just 49B parameters active at a time. Mistral says it is currently the best open-weights model from the US or Europe across aggregated benchmarks, while reaching state-of-the-art performance in areas including cybersecurity, manufacturing and finance. It also reportedly surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding. The model was developed end-to-end in Europe and runs on Mistral’s own European cloud infrastructure. API access is available today, while the open-weights release is planned for the end of October. Mistral is also working privately with cybersecurity partners on the model. Source. @aipost 🏴

🧠 Mistral Releases 1T-Parameter Le Chonk Le chonk is an open model with 1 trillion parameters, matching China’s GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3. It writes code and text while handling agent tasks. Among Western AI systems, it is described as the strongest open-source model, and it outperformed GPT Astra in finance and law. API testing is already available. For the first 2 weeks, pricing is $0.68 per 1M input tokens and $2.09 per 1M output tokens. Weights arrive at the end of October. 📊@tech