Ars Technica reports: French AI lab Mistral released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a freely available model it claims rivals top proprietary systems. It is currently in preview, with a final version expected by month-end.
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Mistral Large 4 is an open-weight model optimized for coding, cyberdefense, manufacturing, finance and electrical engineering. Businesses can run and customize it without licensing fees beyond compute costs. The company claims it trained the model from scratch rather than distilling from competitors.
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