Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

Mistral released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a trillion-parameter open-weight model available in preview with a final version due by the end of the month.

The company claims it is the most capable open-weight model developed outside of China and is optimized for coding, cyberdefense, and niche domains such as manufacturing, finance, and electrical engineering.

Mistral says the model was trained from scratch, not distilled from other models.