Mistral launches ‘Le Chonk’ AI to rival Chinese open-weight models
French AI startup Mistral unveiled its largest model yet, the Mistral Large 4 or 'Le Chonk', a 1 trillion-parameter multimodal AI with 49 billion active parameters. Released on October 6, 2026, it aims to compete with top open-source models like China's Moonshot Kimi K3, which has 2.8 trillion parameters. CEO Artur Mensch claimed Le Chonk surpasses Chinese models in areas such as cybersecurity, coding, and multimodal understanding.
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