Paris-based Mistral releases "Le Chonk," a strong coding model that still trails China overall Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Mistral has released the weights for Large 4 ("Le Chonk"). The model has about one trillion parameters, 52 billion of them active, and can run on your own hardware under a modified MIT license. In independent benchmarks, the model doe