Mistral is a French AI company building open and efficient language models. Known for strong performance at smaller model sizes and commitment to open source.
December 2, 2025
Mistral introduced Mistral 3, described as a family of frontier open-source multimodal models. This represents a new generation of models with multimodal capabilities. It is positioned as a significant step forward in both openness and frontier-level performance.
July 24, 2024
Significantly improved coding and reasoning. 128K context window. Better instruction following and reduced hallucinations.
February 26, 2024
Flagship commercial model. Top tier reasoning capabilities. Native function calling. Available via API and Azure.
December 11, 2023
Mixture of Experts architecture. Matches GPT-3.5 performance at fraction of the cost. Multilingual support across 5 languages.
September 27, 2023
First Mistral model released. Outperformed Llama 2 13B on all benchmarks despite being smaller. Apache 2.0 license for commercial use.