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

- Company: WIRED (wired.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-06T13:15:23+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.wired.com/story/mistral-new-model-le-chonk-open-source-china-us-frontier/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16205-mistral-says-its-new-ai-model-le-chonk-is-the-best-open-weight-offering
- Subject: Reporting
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Mistral Large 4, Le Chonk

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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.wired.com/story/mistral-new-model-le-chonk-open-source-china-us-frontier/:

> The new one trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—can be used and customized by anyone. It’s currently available in preview, with a final version to follow by the end of the month.

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