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6 October 2026
Europe’s push into frontier, multimodal models took center stage, with Mistral Large 4—nicknamed “le Chonk”—stepping up as a clear bid to matter in both enterprise and the open-weights conversation. Mistral is framing the 1 trillion-parameter, natively multimodal system as its largest to date, with 49 billion active parameters, preview access now via guardrails, and weights scheduled for roughly three weeks later after safety testing. Pricing for the preview is concrete: $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens. Independent validation is still pending because the company is leaning on internal benchmarks; when the weights drop, model cards and third-party runs will do the arguing.
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