Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
The short version
- As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence , French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China.
- The new 1 trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—can be used and customized by anyone.
- It’s currently available in preview, with a final version to follow by the end of the month.
What happened
Though Le Chonk is built to compete with leading general-purpose models, it’s optimized specifically for coding and cyberdefense, as well as tasks particular to manufacturing, finance, electrical engineering, and other niches. “There are a lot of areas where the other labs will not focus that much,” Guillaume Lample, cofounder and chief scientist at Mistral, tells WIRED.
Why it matters
“There are so many domains in which you can improve models.” Mistral presents Le Chonk as by far the most capable open-weight model developed outside of China, and “very, very close” to some proprietary models.
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