Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, as a public preview. It is a 1.05 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model with 49 billion active parameters, native image input, and a 1 million token context window, trained on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European datacenters. The API is live now; open weights ship end of October 2026.
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