--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "bd03e4a483646b8532a8be38f63038c71b34c72e91048d24fad76cc874818f73" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/bd03e4a4?lang=en" title: "Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by Defenders." lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-10-29T12:00:07.000Z" category: "Models" topics: ["coding","llm"] source_urls: ["https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/","https://the-decoder.com/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails-china-overall/","https://x.com/MistralAI/status/2115811242556137820","https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2115820547103952925","https://x.com/ValsAI/status/2115819355615490224","https://x.com/knowerofmarkets/status/2115814027708555454","https://x.com/_lewtun/status/2115815568578097271","https://x.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2115817617911157099"] summary: "The weights of Mistral Large 4, also known as Le Chonk, are now open. It is a 1T parameter multimodal model described as the best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe." --- # Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by Defenders\. > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-10-29T12:00:07.000Z **Category:** Models **Topics:** coding, llm ## Summary The weights of Mistral Large 4, also known as Le Chonk, are now open\. It is a 1T parameter multimodal model described as the best open\-weight model for coding, trained in Europe\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]()