Le Chonk
Le Chonk is the nickname for Mistral Large 4, a 1‑trillion‑parameter, natively multimodal open‑weight LLM released by Mistral in 2026. The model, also called ML4, has 52 billion active parameters and is trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace‑Blackwell GPUs in Mistral’s European data centers. It is available in a public preview API on Mistral Studio and its weights will be released at the end of the month. Mistral Large 4 is also known as Le Chonk. Mistral Large 4 is also known as Le Chonk· Entity summary generated by Graphiti
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BY VALID-FROM DATE- Mistral Large 4IS AKALe Chonk
Mistral Large 4 is also known as Le Chonk
- Mistral Large 4ALSO KNOWN ASLe Chonk
Mistral Large 4 is also known as Le Chonk.
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- Paris-based Mistral releases "Le Chonk," a strong coding model that still trails China overallThe Decoder · 2026-10-29
- Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurityTechCrunch · AI · 2026-10-29
- Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging FaceHugging Face Blog · first-party · 2026-10-29
- Mistral Advances AI for Engineering with NVIDIAMistral AI · first-party · 2026-10-21