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Mistral Large 4 released with new license, demanding hardware requirements

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Mistral AI has released the open weights for its trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4, nicknamed "Le Chonk." The model is available for download on Hugging Face and features a 1-million-token context window, multimodal capabilities, and multilingual support. A significant change is the new Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License, which replaces the previous Apache 2.0 license and includes restrictions on hosted-service use. While Mistral reports strong performance, particularly in cybersecurity, running the model locally is highly demanding, requiring substantial hardware. AI

IMPACT Sets a new precedent for open-weight model licensing and highlights the increasing hardware demands for cutting-edge AI.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Mistral Large 4 released with new license, demanding hardware requirements

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · ToolPilot Pro ·

    Mistral Large 4 Is Out — Open Weights, New Licence and a Cyber Edge

    <p>The wait is over. On Thursday, October 29, Mistral AI publicly released the open weights for Mistral Large 4 — the trillion-parameter model nicknamed "Le Chonk" — and anyone can now download it from Hugging Face and run it on their own hardware. When we published <a href="http…

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