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Mistral 3 is designed for customization and privacy.
Its smaller multimodal models can run on single GPUs.
Mistral hopes the models create "distributed intelligence."
Another open-source model has joined the ever-expanding AI race, this time from boutique French AI lab Mistral -- and it's going small where most other labs go big.
Mistral 3, a family of four open-source models released by the company on Tuesday, offers "unprecedented flexibility and control for enterprises and developers," according to the announcement. The suite includes a large model, two mid-size models, and a smaller edition, aiming to address a wider variety of needs.
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"This spectrum of models further extends our customers' applied AI capabilities to robotics, autonomous drones, and small on-device applications without network access, as well as the world's largest enterprise agentic workflows," Mistral wrote in the release. More on what that means in practice below.
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