Mistral releases trillion-parameter Large 4, the best model outside the US and China
AI summary
European AI lab Mistral has released Large 4 (also called ML4 and nicknamed "Le Chonk" on social media), a trillion-parameter model. Testing lab Artificial Analysis scored it 38 on its overall intelligence index, according to Tom's Hardware, leaving it behind Chinese models such as Kimi K3 (max), GLM-5.3-Flash and MiMo-V2.6.Pro, though it performs strongly on cybersecurity tasks. Tom's Hardware reported that independent tests rank ML4 as the best AI model outside the U.S. and China, and said Mistral expects the exact weights to be released before the end of October.
In-depth insight
It is a European attempt to close the gap with U.S. and Chinese labs in open-weight models, yet third-party scores suggest it still trails leading Chinese releases.