Le Chonk and the Open-Weight Bet: Mistral's 2026 Model Strategy

The last twelve months of model releases, from Mistral 3 to the 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk" released open-weight in October 2026, plus Arthur Mensch's "Build or surrender" argument for why Europe must keep building frontier models. Prepares you to answer "Why open weights?" and to discuss Mistral's models with a calibrated point of view.