According to Decrypt, Paris-based Mistral AI launched a new large language model named Large 4. The model received its nickname “Le Chonk” after a June internet joke involving a cat meme. The name originated from online humor circulating at that time. Mistral AI publicly introduced the model in June. On one finance-focused evaluation test, Large 4 performed better than GPT-6 Astra. In other tests—such as those involving Claude—the new model did not achieve top performance. The announcement included details about model size and intended use but did not specify versions of competing models for comparison beyond the mentioned names.
