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Mistral AI releases open-weight Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk"

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Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, also known as "Le Chonk," as an open-weight model. This ~1 trillion parameter, multimodal MoE model features a 1 million token context window and has undergone further reinforcement learning since its initial public preview. The release includes distinct reasoning modes (low, medium, high) with 'high' being the default, and API pricing is set at $0.70 for input, $0.07 for cached input, and $2.10 for output. AI

IMPACT This release provides a powerful open-weight model for developers, potentially impacting the cost and performance of AI applications, especially in coding and long-context tasks.

RANK_REASON Open-weight release of a large multimodal MoE model by a frontier lab. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Mistral AI releases open-weight Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk"

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Open-weight release of a large multimodal MoE model by a frontier lab. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Yong Yu ·

    Mistral Large 4 Open Weights: Vendor TB 41% vs AA's 25%, High Default Effort, and $0.70/$2.10 Before You Self-Host

    <blockquote> <p><strong>Attributed compile + one small offline run on my box</strong><br /><br /> <strong>Primary source:</strong> <a href="https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now open weight</a> by <strong>Mistral…

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