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Hugging Face Transformers v5.22.0 adds support for Mistral Large 4

According to a post on X by @caolonghua, Hugging Face's Transformers v5.22.0 now supports Mistral Large 4, also called Le Chonk, following an open-weights release that the post says happened that morning. The release notes describe a multimodal mixture-of-experts model with about 1 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active parameters. They also list a 1 million-token context window and low, medium and high reasoning effort settings. The provided snippet is cut off, so these specifics come only from the post's description of the release notes.

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According to a post on X by @caolonghua, Hugging Face's Transformers v5.22.0 now supports Mistral Large 4, also called Le Chonk, following an open-weights release that the post says happened that morning. The release notes describe a multimodal mixture-of-experts model with about 1 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active parameters. They also list a 1 million-token context window and low, medium and high reasoning effort settings. The provided snippet is cut off, so these specifics come only from the post's description of the release notes.

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Following this morning's open-weights release, Hugging Face's Transformers v5.22.0 now supports Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk). The release notes describe a multimodal mixture-of-experts model with about 1 trillion total and 49 billion active parameters, a 1 million-token context window and low, medium and high...

Developers who use the Transformers library can now work with this model through that tooling, according to the post. The model's size and long context window point to large-scale and long-input use cases, though the source does not state this directly. Watch for the full model documentation and independent testing, which are not included in the provided information.

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