# Mistral releases Large 4 weights, ranking near top open models for coding

> Original title: Mistral’s Le Chonk is now a top open model for coding, ranking alongside Codex GPT-6.1 Terra

- Source: ZDNet · AI
- Published: 2026-10-29T14:00:31.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/aeuqaxwkkv48tpt8kewhgzbxp
- Original: https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/mistral-large-4-weights-release/

## Summary

Mistral has released the weights for its Mistral Large 4 model, nicknamed Le Chonk, after a preview on Oct. 6. Its Terminal-Bench 4.0 score rose from 28% to 41%, and Mistral says it rivals GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index while using 47% fewer tokens per task. Mistral says it trained the model from scratch on 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs over two months.