Mistral AI: Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk
Mistral AI @MistralAI · x · 2026-10-06 · ★★★★ · archived
Official launch post for Mistral Large 4 (~4.04M views, 37k likes by Oct 7).
Summary
Official launch: 1T parameters, 49B active, natively multimodal; 'the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks'; claims state of the art on cyber defense, manufacturing and finance workloads and beats closed models on visual grounding; 'forged in Europe end-to-end', deployable via Mistral Cloud; API available the same day, working privately with cybersecurity partners; open weights at the end of October.
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Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding. • Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure. • Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
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Archived 2026-10-07 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
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