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Mistral says it released the weights of Mistral Large 4, also called Le Chonk, and claims first place among open models on Cognition’s FrontierCode benchmark. Mistral also claims state-of-the-art cyberdefense capabilities following testing by vendors including CrowdStrike and Cloudflare; MTS reports that its CRO, Marjorie Janiewicz, argues enterprises need open models, control and customization as chatbot returns approach their limits.
Today, we release the weights of a new and improved Le Chonk, advancing the open frontier for agentic coding and cybersecurity.
Mistral AI, Mistral AI lab · On XThe other topic is ROI from general purpose AI and from chatbots is going to meet its limits. We need to empower larger enterprises to transform their core business, and for that you need control and you need customization.
MTS, AI news aggregator · On XOur story: Mistral opens Large 4 weights, touts coding and cyber capabilities
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