Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk" released with 1T params, 1M context, and restricted commercial license

Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with approximately 1 trillion total parameters and a 1 million token context window. The model, nicknamed "Le Chonk," is available on Hugging Face in FP8 and NVFP4 variants, with community quantizations also released. While described as "open-weight," its license restricts commercial use as a service unless a separate agreement is made with Mistral, though internal use and embedded applications are permitted. The model's architecture requires significant memory due to its total parameter count, despite a smaller number of active parameters per token. AI

IMPACT Sets a new bar for open-weight multimodal models, but its licensing and hardware requirements may limit widespread adoption.

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

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• Hugging Face
• Le Chonk
• llama.cpp
• Mistral AI
• Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License
• Mistral Large 4
• MIT
• mixture of experts
• Nvidia Grace Blackwell
• SGLang
• transformers
• Unsloth
• vLLM

• model release
• product

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