Mistral releases 1 trillion parameter multimodal model

French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter multimodal model nicknamed Le Chonk. It is currently accessible only via a public endpoint, with open weights to follow in three weeks after safety testing. Trained on just 4,000 Nvidia GPUs, Mistral claims this is two to three times fewer than Chinese competitors. Optimized use cases include cybersecurity, finance, and chip design — areas relevant to backers ASML and Samsung. Mistral aims for ML4 to be best-in-class among open-weight models and to outperform closed models in targeted domains.