# Mistral's trillion-parameter Large 4 leads non-Chinese open-weight models on security benchmarks but trails GLM, Kimi and DeepSeek on coding

Mistral has opened the model to preview API customers at $1.36 per million input tokens and says weights follow later this month after security tests. NVIDIA, ahead of its Berlin conference, presented France as an agentic-computing showcase.

- Published: 2026-10-13T06:13:53.502Z
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- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/france-ecosystem-agentic-computing/), [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/mistral-ai-model-le-chonk.html), [ITPro](https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meet-le-chonk-everything-you-need-to-know-about-mistrals-new-open-weight-ai-model), [MindStudio](https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/mistral-large-4-lechonk-release), [Datacenter Dynamics](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/mgx-bpifrance-nvidia-and-mistral-ai-plan-14gw-paris-data-center-campus/)

Mistral AI unveiled Mistral Large 4, which it nicknamed "le Chonk", on October 6. The company called it the best open-weight model for security outside China, CNBC reported. The model is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) system with about one tril…

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