Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company that develops open-weight language and multimodal models. Recent coverage has focused on Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal model, and on updates to its coding performance; the Voxtral 3 speech family, including Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3, which ranked second on Voice Arena's diarization and ASR leaderboard; a collaboration with NVIDIA on industrial engineering AI; and the acquisition of design studio New Material.
Three weeks of training camp for Le Chonk. No days off. Thanks for putting it to the test, @ThibaultJaigu and @RequestyAI. [Quoting @ThibaultJaigu]: Impressed by the new @MistralAI large-4 update! The model update is much better at coding and performs as the…
Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 ranks #2 on Voice Arena’s Diarization + ASR leaderboard. [Quoting @voicearena_ai]: 🚀 Mistral AI’s Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 ranks #2 out of 9 models by DER on Voice Arena’s Diarization + ASR leaderboard, outperforming its larger cou…
Morocco creates AI ministry; Mistral partnership yields open modelMorocco elevated AI to ministerial level on Oct 16, appointing Ahmed Rahhou as Minister of AI, Digital Transformation and Administrative Reform. Its earlier Mistral AI partnership produced an Arabic-dialect classifier and a Voxtral-based transcription solution; Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime Arabic is released under Apache 2.0, though no evidence yet shows a government agency using it for citizens.
Mistral releases open-weight multimodal model Large 4Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 in public preview, an open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a fine-grained Mixture-of-Experts architecture: 52B active parameters, 1.05T total parameters, and a 1.6B vision encoder.
Today we’re announcing a new collaboration with @nvidia to bring AI to industrial engineering: - faster simulation - open benchmarks and supporting datasets for physics AI - evaluations for agentic AI in CAE and EDA More here:
Mistral AI launches Voxtral 3 real-time voice agent stackMistral AI launched Voxtral 3, a model family combining speech-to-text, text-to-speech and an agent SDK, supporting 50+ languages and external tool calls in live conversations, with self-hosting or EU-hosted APIs for data control.
Turns out le Chonk is into rocket science. Mistral Large 4 scoring well in engineering and astronomy on Ulam’s private benchmark, STEMBench:
Welcome to Mistral, New Material. Let’s bring design to mission-critical AI. [Quoting @newmaterialAI]: New Material joins @MistralAI to design the frontier. Over the last 6 years we've teamed up with ambitious organisations transforming their industries with…
Look up! Mistral models are in orbit 🌍. Proud to join @orbitworksspace and @LoftOrbital's first-of-its-kind AI satellite constellation with @NVIDIAAIInfra. [Quoting @LoftOrbital]: Just a few weeks ago, @orbitworksspace launched Altair, the first of a 50-sate…
Mistral releases 1T-parameter multimodal model Large 4French lab Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model nicknamed Le Chonk, accessible only via a guarded public endpoint with open weights promised in three weeks after safety testing. Trained on just 4,000 NVIDIA GPUs, using two to three times less compute than Chinese rivals, it targets use cases like cybersecurity.
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance an…
Crunchbase: Q3 global VC hits $159B as billion-dollar rounds set recordGlobal venture funding reached $159 billion in Q3 2026 across nearly 6,000 startups, down 25% quarter over quarter but up 53% year over year, per Crunchbase. A record 27 companies raised billion-dollar rounds, with Databricks and Safe Superintelligence each raising $5 billion.
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Today, we are announcing a partnership with @mozilla to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. 🦊🐈
Mistral raises €3B at €21B valuationFrench AI lab Mistral AI said it raised €3 billion in a Series D at a post-money valuation of over €21 billion, led by Samsung Electronics with Scaleup Europe and existing investor PSG Equity joining as co-leads. Mistral said the funds will scale compute, infrastructure, commercial growth and international expansion.
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