Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now Open Weight

SteadyVane has taken 8 readings of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now Open Weight since Oct 29, 2026: 58 upvotes at the first reading, 1,605 at the latest (+1,547). Its biggest one-day gain was +1,012 on Oct 29, 2026.

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Featured on 1 day: October 30, 2026.

In the brief

• Mistral opened the weights of Mistral Large 4, a roughly 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model
  Open weights and a four-GPU requirement are two different kinds of access.

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