{"slug": "paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails", "title": "Paris-based Mistral releases \"Le Chonk,\" a strong coding model that still trails China overall", "summary": "Paris-based Mistral released the weights for Large 4, nicknamed \"Le Chonk,\" a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. Mistral says Large 4 beats its open rivals at coding, and independent testing shows it is fast and fairly cheap, but it trails China's top models with a score of 26 points against the 32 posted by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3.", "body_md": "Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, aka \"Le Chonk,\" a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. Mistral says it beats its open rivals at coding, and independent testing shows it's fast and fairly cheap. It still can't match China's top models, scoring 26 points to the 32 posted by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3.\n\nThe article [Paris-based Mistral releases \"Le Chonk,\" a strong coding model that still trails China overall](https://the-decoder.com/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails-china-overall/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails-china-overall/", "published_at": "2026-10-29 15:25:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-29 15:47:46.104850+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Mistral", "Large 4", "Le Chonk", "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash", "GLM-5.3"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paris-based-mistral-releases-le-chonk-a-strong-coding-model-that-still-trails.jsonld"}}