Mistral releasing new open weights model "Le Chonk"

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LeChonk-1T-A49B Weights to be released by the end of the month. This probably means the fat kitten is dead. Also: gotta love the release movie.

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2026-10-06 13:41 · r/LocalLLaMA
Mistral releasing new open weights model "Le Chonk"

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