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

6 days ago by CAVOK to c/europe

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.
Sibbo 72 points 6 days ago

At least the engineers have good humour when it comes to names

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tardigrade 27 points 6 days ago path: 0 26194597, hotness: undefined, score: 27, children: 14
ExtraJudgement 17 points 6 days ago

I'm really hoping Soofi models are going to be good. Because afaict they'll be the first (and so far only) open source (not just open weight) models in the ~30B parameters range.

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pech 8 points 6 days ago path: 0 26194597 26197139 26201948, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 10
story 5 points 6 days ago

I've been using the 7b version for about 2 weeks now to monitor my basic k3s metrics and send me emails about it!

Fun Fact, it is difficult to convince this thing it isn't Claude without a system prompt

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story 6 points 6 days ago

(if you're about to send me a rude prompt about how this could have been a cron job, i completely agree with you but i already had the dang thing up and i wanted to see if it could do it)

i have a web ui for it if anyone wants to try

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pech 2 points 5 days ago

That's awesome to hear, I'm glad it's working well for you!

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ExtraJudgement 4 points 5 days ago

Thank you very much, I hadn't heard about this model coming out anywhere!

Seems like I'll need to wait just a bit more for it to be available in Ollama. As soon as it's there I'll try it out :)

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pech 3 points 5 days ago

No problem! The company who provides the models also forked llama.cpp while they wait for their PR to be approved if you're curious about it.

https://github.com/...

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sakphul 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks for sharing! Never heard of them but their smaller models (especially the 36B and 32B Model) sound very promising for lcoal deployments.

However it is kinda strange that the 32B model performs that much worse in Terminal-Bench 2.1 compared to the 36B parameter model.

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exu 3 points 5 days ago path: 0 26194597 26197139 26211747, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
ExtraJudgement 4 points 5 days ago

The good Apertus model is too large at 70B, unfortunately. The 8B model is much too small to be useful for what I need.

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marius 12 points 6 days ago

Is this what's called Mistral large 4 preview on artificial analyses?

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vandsjov 5 points 5 days ago

From here:

Today, we’re launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4. Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk.

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story 7 points 6 days ago

Very thankful to everyone who worked on this and every hobbyist that shows interest.

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CAVOK 7 points 6 days ago

I thought I posted news about this earlier but I can't seem to find it, but I also had some connection issues so maybe it didn't go through. Didn't see it removed in the modlog either, but if this is off topic for Europe, just let me know and I'll remove it.

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christianhawkins 5 points 6 days ago path: 0 26201309, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
Evotech 2 points 5 days ago

Rank #1 on the TMBB I’m sure

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