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Mistral announces Mistral Large 4 with 1T parameters and native multimodality
What happened
Mistral AI announced Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk, with 1T parameters, 49B active, and native multimodality, available via API today with an open weights release planned for the end of October. It claims the model leads open weights models from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks and surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding. Arthur Mensch adds that it took groundwork, was trained and served on their own compute, and that RL shows no sign of saturation.
Why it matters
The announced API availability and end of October open weights release give teams distinct timelines for accessing the model through hosted infrastructure or its weights.
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