MISTRAL’S ‘LE CHONK’ GOES LARGE, POST SAYS

A post by SunnyAIDock reports that AI firm Mistral launched its Mistral Large 4 model in public preview on Oct. 6, 2026. Nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the model has 1.05 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active parameters, according to the post.

The author says Mistral plans to release the model’s weights by the end of October, which would allow private deployment and customization. The weights have not been reported as released. The post also cautions that the benchmarks cited so far are preliminary.