Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

Wired2026-10-06 21:150 views

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.

Source：https://www.wired.com/story/mistral-new-model-le-chonk-open-source-china-us-frontier/

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