Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

I don't know why, but I personally find Mistral's marketing strategy much more appealing than that of other companies.

For example, there's something about Anthropic's picked design and their little Claude avatars that's unsettling to me.

The main thing I always get away from the comparison tables of these "big" models, is how well Deepseek v4.1 Flash performs. While still being the cheapest model by a long shot.

Very nice progress. Also I respect putting Kimi on those charts. Regardless of if they are beating the Pareto frontier (not now), model diversity is a good thing for humanity — I’m hopeful for the team to keep increasing their gains.

Open weight, European, competes with GLM-5.3 on cybersecurity. What's not to like?

This is awesome, one of the coolest Pokemon ever too for those that don't follow that universe :)

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lechonk_(Pok%C3%A9mo...

One step closer to Le Chaton Fat.

How could I resist switching to a model named after my cat!?

Excited to try this. The low costs v. benchmarks alone here are worth a serious test. K3 has been my daily driver for a month or two now and it's dramatically reduced token spend (while not having much of a negative impact on productivity).

This was the era of the AI race I was waiting for.

Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979 (200 comments now)

Is that a reference to LeChuck in Monkey Island? Love that game!

Excited to see this! Nice that they are saying this is just a first step.

Give them more compute!

> Trained from scratch

How are they training without pirating the Z library corpus and all that?

Did they release it again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979

I'm glad they're keeping at it!

Don't believe Mistral. They're wrong. It's really called "Le chaton fat".

Also 1T-A49B. Weights currently closed but promise to open source them by the end of the month.

Great release movie.

sorting the charts like that gives off weird vibes

We are so back

better than K3 and DS4, cool

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979

Awh I was half expecting a zombie pirate..

A bit disappointing to see it still lagging behind Chinese open models. Those Chinese models are pushing proprietary models to raise the bar, but we need equally strong non-Chinese open models to challenge the Chinese ones in turn.

YES finally

Now THAT'S how you name a model. Take note, others.

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i subbmitted a partnership proposal in your contact.