Mistral’s new Le Chonk model brings AI cybersecurity to your business – and you control it

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

  • Mistral’s open-weight ML4 model Le Chonk is in preview.
  • ML4 was trained with fewer GPUs than OpenAI’s Astra, but competes.
  • Open models are positioned as democratic defenders from AI attacks.

French AI lab Mistral has shipped its latest model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4) — and it’s positioned as the open solution for all your defense requirements.

Also: Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war’s afoot, and the stakes are existential

One outcome of recent AI security incidents is that open and proprietary models are being pitted against each other. Initially framed as less safe because of their malleability, open models are viewed as a new option for cyber defense after proprietary models from Anthropic and OpenAI proved just as risky.

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