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Mistral's latest open-source release says smaller models beat large ones - here's why

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The company aims to create 'distributed intelligence' with its new Mistral 3 models.

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The company said it trained Mistral Large 3 in many languages, making advanced AI usable for billions of people with different native languages.

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Mistral AI, the French startup that has gained notoriety as a European alternative to OpenAI and Google, has just introduced Mistral 3, a family of artificial intelligence models that breaks with the "bigger is better" paradigm. Instead of competing in the race to build the most powerful and closed models, Mistral proposes a decentralised vision: open, efficient and adaptable models, designed to run on business servers as well as drones, smartph…

The French startup Mistral AI released its new generation of open source models on December 2nd: Mistral 3. This family of models brings together the flagship model Mistral Large 3 and the Ministral 3 series, designed for embedded uses ranging from smartphone to robots. In the open source landscape, Mistral 3 aligns more with models like Qwen (Alibaba), DeepSeek or Kimi, which today represent the top of the open LLM basket. Comparison with propr…

Mistral AI affirms its strategy resolutely focused on business. On Tuesday, December 2, the French start-up unveiled its new Mistral 3 model and nine small associated models: Ministral 3. With these language models (LLM), the start-up expands its offer to industrialists, start-ups and research laboratories. These customizable language models can work on smartphones, laptops or other electronic devices. A spokesperson for Mistral speaks of "small…

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