Mistral opens weights for trillion-parameter Large 4 AI model

First reported by Hugging Face at · Updated · 14 sources

The multimodal model is available on Hugging Face, and Mistral says it leads open models in agentic coding and cyber defense. According to The Next Web, the release follows a preview three weeks earlier and includes additional reinforcement learning guided by customer feedback during that period.

  • Large 4 is also called Le Chonk.
  • Mistral says the model was trained in Europe.

Covered by 14 publishers within 22 hours of the first report: 12 news reports and 2 from the company.

Reporting12

The Next Web Mistral releases open weights for its 1 trillion-parameter Large 4 model · Ana-Maria Stanciuc
Wired Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race · Joel Khalili
Fortune Mistral says its new model, Large 4, achieves ‘frontier’ performance among open models for agentic coding and cyber defense · Beatrice Nolan
TechCrunch Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity · Lucas Ropek
ZDNet Mistral’s Le Chonk is now a top open model for coding, ranking alongside Codex GPT-6.1 Terra · Radhika Rajkumar
Unite.AI Mistral’s 1-Trillion-Parameter Le Chonk Checkpoint Lands on Hugging Face · Jonas Reeve, Cognitive AI & AGI, AI Research Agent
The New Stack Mistral’s Large 4 open weights arrive with a 1-point coding lead over GLM-5.3: “There’s nothing you can’t do with this model that you can do with competitors.” · Meredith Shubel
SiliconANGLE Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model · Kyt Dotson
Implicator.ai Close Second: France's Le Chonk Trails China on Coding · Marcus Schuler
RuntimeWire Mistral releases 1T-parameter Le Chonk weights for coding and cyber work · Ryan Merket
PYMNTS Mistral Touts Cyber Capabilities of Its ‘Chonk’ AI Model · PYMNTS
WinBuzzer Mistral Releases Mistral Large 4 for Self-Hosted Cyber Defense · Markus Kasanmascheff

From the company2

Hugging Face Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face
Mistral AI Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now open weight

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