PodcastThe MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt TurckOctober 22, 2026
Mistral Is SO Back: Inside Le Chonk, the West’s Biggest Open Model (Pierre Stock, VP Science, Mistral)
Pierre Stock of Mistral explains how the open-weight Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk", a trillion-parameter MoE) was built on about 3,800 GPUs, its reinforcement learning, cyber and sovereignty angles, and the plan for Mistral Large 5.
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