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The labs
No more opening a dozen official blogs every morning. First-hand releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and the rest, each with its substance pulled out.
Codestral Embed model release
Mistral AI released Codestral Embed, a code‑specialized embedding model that outperforms existing code embedders on retrieval benchmarks and supports flexible dimensions and precisions.
Mistral Agents API Release
Mistral AI has launched the Agents API, a framework that combines language models with built-in connectors, persistent memory, and multi-agent orchestration to enable the creation of active problem-solving AI agents.
Mistral AI Devstral Release
Mistral AI has released Devstral, an agentic LLM for software engineering that outperforms open-source models on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Mistral Medium 3 Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Mistral Medium 3, a frontier-class model that balances state-of-the-art performance with 8x lower costs and flexible enterprise deployment options.
Mistral AI introduces Le Chat Enterprise
Mistral AI has launched Le Chat Enterprise, a unified AI platform powered by the Mistral Medium 3 model that integrates enterprise data and allows for the creation of no-code AI agents.
Evaluating RAG with LLM as a Judge
Mistral AI outlines a framework for evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using an LLM-as-a-judge approach based on the RAG Triad metrics of context relevance, groundedness, and answer relevance.
Mistral Small 3.1 Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3.1, an Apache 2.0 licensed model featuring multimodal understanding, a 128k token context window, and performance that surpasses GPT-4o Mini and Gemma 3.
Mistral OCR Release Notes
Mistral AI has launched Mistral OCR, a high-accuracy Optical Character Recognition API designed to extract interleaved text, images, tables, and equations from complex documents for use in RAG systems.
Mistral AI Agentic Workflow for Product Development
Mistral AI has introduced an agentic workflow, powered by Mistral Large 2, that automates the conversion of meeting transcripts into Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and actionable engineering tickets.
Mistral Saba: Specialized Regional Language Model for Middle East and South Asia
Mistral AI has released Mistral Saba, a 24B parameter model optimized for Arabic and Indian-origin languages to provide higher accuracy and lower latency than larger general-purpose models.
Mistral AI le Chat Update February 2025
Mistral AI has unveiled an updated le Chat AI assistant featuring high-speed inference, integrated web search, code execution, and new Pro, Team, and Enterprise tiers.
Mistral Small 3 Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model under the Apache 2.0 license that rivals the performance of models three times its size.
Mistral AI Announces AFP Newswire Integration for Le Chat
Mistral AI announced a partnership with Agence France-Presse that integrates AFP's multilingual newswire into its Le Chat assistant, boosting factual accuracy and coverage for users.
Codestral 25.01 release notes / what's new
Mistral AI has released Codestral 25.01, a coding model featuring a more efficient architecture and improved tokenizer that generates code approximately twice as fast as its predecessor.
Mistral AI le Chat Updates November 2024
Mistral AI has introduced several beta features to le Chat, including web search with citations, a collaborative Canvas interface, and multimodal capabilities powered by Pixtral Large.
Pixtral Large Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Pixtral Large, a 124B open-weights multimodal model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on MathVista, DocVQA, and VQAv2 while maintaining the text capabilities of Mistral Large 2.
Mistral Batch API Release
Mistral AI has launched a Batch API that allows users to process high-volume requests at a 50% lower cost than synchronous API calls.
Mistral Moderation API Release
Mistral AI has released a new content moderation API, an LLM-based classifier that categorizes text into nine safety categories across multiple languages to provide system-level guardrails for AI deployments.
Mistral AI releases Ministral 3B and 8B edge models
Mistral AI has introduced Ministral 3B and 8B, two state-of-the-art edge models designed for on-device computing, low-latency agentic workflows, and privacy-first local inference.
Mistral AI September 2024 Release
Mistral AI has introduced a free tier for la Plateforme, significant price reductions across its model family, the Mistral Small v24.09 model, and free vision capabilities via Pixtral 12B on le Chat.
Pixtral 12B Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Pixtral 12B, a natively multimodal model that combines a new 400M parameter vision encoder with a 12B parameter decoder to deliver high-performance multimodal reasoning without compromising text capabilities.
Mistral AI Model Customization and Agents Release
Mistral AI has introduced model customization for flagship models including Mistral Large 2 and Codestral, alongside an alpha release of Agents and the stable 1.0 version of their client SDK.
Mistral Large 2 release notes / what's new
Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 2, a 123B parameter model designed for high throughput single-node inference with competitive performance in coding, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities.
Mistral NeMo Release Notes
Mistral AI and NVIDIA have released Mistral NeMo, a 12B parameter model featuring a 128k context window and a new, highly efficient multilingual tokenizer called Tekken.
Codestral Mamba Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Codestral Mamba, a 7B parameter model utilizing the Mamba architecture to provide linear time inference and high-performance coding and reasoning capabilities.
Mathstral 7B Release
Mistral AI has released Mathstral, a 7B parameter model specializing in STEM subjects and advanced mathematical reasoning, developed in collaboration with Project Numina.
Mistral AI Model Customization and Fine-Tuning Services
Mistral AI has introduced model customization options via a new SDK, serverless fine-tuning on la Plateforme, and custom training services to enable domain-specific model optimization.
Mistral AI Fine-tuning Hackathon Announcement
Mistral AI announced a virtual fine-tuning hackathon running June 5‑30 2024, offering €2,500 in API credits to the top three projects that use its new fine‑tuning API.
Codestral Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Codestral, a 22B open-weight generative AI model specifically designed for code generation across 80+ programming languages.
Mistral AI Non-Production License (MNPL) Announcement
Mistral AI has introduced the Mistral AI Non-Production License (MNPL) to allow non-commercial and research use of its technology while ensuring sustainable commercial partnerships for those building businesses on its models.
Mixtral 8x22B Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Mixtral 8x22B, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 141B total parameters and 39B active parameters, providing high performance and cost efficiency under an Apache 2.0 license.
Mistral AI Le Chat Release
Mistral AI has released Le Chat, a multilingual conversational assistant that serves as a demonstration of Mistral models' capabilities for both individual users and business environments.
Mistral Large and Mistral Small Release
Mistral AI has released Mistral Large, a flagship model with top-tier reasoning and multilingual capabilities, and Mistral Small, a model optimized for low-latency workloads.
Mistral AI La Plateforme Release
Mistral AI has launched La Plateforme, a beta API service providing access to three generative chat endpoints and one embedding endpoint with varying performance and price tradeoffs.
Mixtral 8x7B Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Mixtral 8x7B, a sparse mixture-of-experts model that outperforms Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks while delivering 6x faster inference.
Mistral AI: Bringing Open AI Models to the Frontier
Mistral AI has launched to spearhead the revolution of open-weight generative AI models, beginning with the release of Mistral 7B, a model that outperforms other open models up to 13B parameters.
Mistral 7B Release Notes
Mistral AI has released Mistral 7B, a 7.3B parameter language model that outperforms Llama 2 13B across all benchmarks and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.