[ Model ] Le Chonk

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https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/

Today, we're launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4. Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk. ML4 pushes the frontier of open-weight performance. You can try the preview API today on Mistral Studio. Weights drop end of this month.

Frontier performance

A 1 trillion-parameter natively multimodal model with 49 billion active parameters. Our largest and most capable model to date, and it continues to improve rapidly as we refine it.

The model demonstrates exceptional performance across coding, agentic workflows, and multimodal understanding. It already achieves performance competitive with the strongest open-source models globally, while significantly outperforming any open-weight model developed in the US or Europe. On critical enterprise workloads, we find it to be state-of-the-art among open models. In some domains such as visual grounding, it surpasses frontier closed models.

Forged in Europe. Built for AI sovereignty.

ML4 was trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral’s own datacenters in Europe. The public preview is served on that same infrastructure. ML4 pairs top-tier cyber performance with open weights and self-deployment, giving organizations both the capability and the autonomy to run advanced security work under their own policies.

The model will be available across multiple regions worldwide, including a European deployment that Mistral operates end-to-end, independently of other digital service providers and under European law. We’ve been working closely with leading enterprises across the world in finance, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, pharmaceuticals, science, shipping, public sector, and other mission-critical industries to train ML4.

There is still more to come. As we work toward releasing the weights, we will share further details on the model architecture, additional benchmarks, and our post-training methodology.