# Mistral releases Mistral Large 4 weights, tops FrontierCode among open models

> Original title: MISTRAL 🔥: Le Chonk (Mistral Large 4) is now available on HuggingFace!

- Source: Testing Catalog
- Published: 2026-10-29T14:28:35.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/vzdb38kwsk5segsgi33u42z3a
- Original: https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2115813050057990158

## Summary

Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face, which it says ranks as the best open-weight model for coding. The company says the model takes the top spot among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark and sets a new Pareto efficiency benchmark on Artificial Analysis. Mistral also cites reasoning efficiency gains that lower inference costs for developers.

## Post

MISTRAL 🔥: Le Chonk (Mistral Large 4) is now available on HuggingFace! 

> "The new model also features substantial gains in reasoning efficiency that give developers greater performance while lowering inference costs."

> "Mistral Large 4 ranks as the best open-weight model for coding and among the world's most capable open models overall."

It now takes the top spot on Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark among open models!

We need new Mistral Small now 👀

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## Quoted post @MistralAI

> Today, we release the weights of a new and improved Le Chonk, advancing the open frontier for agentic coding and cybersecurity.
> 
> 💻 Built to build: Le Chonk ranks #1 on @cognition’s FrontierCode among open models, and sets a new benchmark for Pareto efficiency on @artificialanalysis.
> 
> 🛡 Built to defend: State-of-the-art in cyberdefense, put through the paces by the world's leading cyber vendors, including @CrowdStrike, @cloudflare, @rubrik, @zscaler, and others.
> 
> Built for sovereignty: Make it yours. Download the weights on @huggingface , customize it with Mistral Forge, and deploy it wherever you need it.
> 
> Read more from our team and customers 👇:

https://x.com/MistralAI/status/2115811242556137820