Mistral Large 4: 1T-Parameter "Le Chonk" Targets Rivals
French AI lab Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 (ML4) on Tuesday. It is a large multimodal model, meaning it handles more than one type of input, and Mistral wants it to compete with both American and Chinese labs. The release also shows that Europe still intends to compete at the top end of AI development.
Mistral frames the launch around an idea that French president Emmanuel Macron has called "a third way in AI." The market is increasingly divided between closed models, which their owners can switch off, and open models, many of which come from China. Mistral is pitching ML4 as an alternative to both.