📅 Oct 6, 2026
The French lab's new flagship AI model arrives Tuesday as a public preview called Le Chonk.
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Co-founder Guillaume Lample says it ranks among the world's best open-weight models, on aggregate benchmarks.
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Mistral had slipped to 24th in independent rankings; it now claims the strongest open model built outside China.
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Built on Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips in Mistral's own European data centers — the sovereignty play.
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A Samsung-led round last month gave Mistral the firepower to keep racing OpenAI, Anthropic and Chinese labs.
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