Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

The company's new model, named "Le Chonk," is its first release in five months. Mistral says it outruns some of its Chinese competitors in several areas.

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.