Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models

Mistral released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a trillion parameter model that it says can rival the best closed systems while staying open weight, so anyone can download and customize it. Nicknamed Le Chonk, it was trained from scratch rather than distilled from competitors, and it is tuned for coding and cyberdefense. Open weights mean businesses pay only for the computing they use.

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