Mistral releases Le Chonk, a 1 trillion-parameter open-weight model

Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a 1 trillion-parameter model it says can be used and customized by anyone.

It is in preview, with a final version due by the end of the month, and is optimized for coding and cyberdefense as well as manufacturing, finance, and electrical engineering tasks.

Mistral claims it is the most capable open-weight model developed outside China and says it was trained from scratch rather than through distillation.