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Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
Publisher description: 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.
Wired | Oct 6, 2026 | Joel Khalili
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As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely-available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new one trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—can be used and customized by anyone. Though Le Chonk is built to compete with leading general purpose models, it’s optimized specifically for coding and cyberdefense, as well as tasks particular to manufacturing, finance, electrical engineering, and other niches.
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