Mistral AI on October 29, 2026 released the weights of Mistral Large 4, its flagship 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal model known as Le Chonk, making the checkpoint downloadable from Hugging Face for self-hosting and available across its API and partner platforms under a modified MIT open-weight license. The release follows the model's public preview on October 6, 2026, when Mistral first introduced the 1.05-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts system. In its announcement, Mistral said…