LE CHATON FAT IS REAL
Summary
Mistral AI introduces Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), a natively multimodal 1T-parameter model with 49B active parameters, claiming best-in-class open weights performance from the US or Europe, state-of-the-art results on critical workloads like cyber defense and finance, and end-to-end European sovereignty, available via API with open weights releasing end of October.
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Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding. • Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure. • Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
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