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Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now Open Weight
This is a direct shot at the consolidation narrative around frontier models. Open-weight 400B-class models are now commoditized enough that the gap between closed and open is performance, not capability class. For operators on a budget or with latency constraints, this changes the math on whether to run in-house. For API companies, the margin compression just got real.