# Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, its 'Le Chonk' model

> Original title: Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model

- Source: SiliconANGLE · AI
- Published: 2026-10-29T15:20:38.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/kfnpdyvhfn1416wwqy4tqsnwo
- Original: https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/29/mistral-releases-open-weights-for-mistral-large-4-providing-sovereign-control-for-the-companys-le-chonk-ai-model/

## Summary

Mistral AI has released open weights for Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a 1 trillion parameter model with 52 billion active parameters that is natively multimodal. The company says ML4 rose from 28% to 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and uses 47% fewer tokens per task than GLM-5.3 on average, letting companies run it on their own hardware.