Mistral has launched Europe's first artificial intelligence model that uses logical thinking to generate answers, as the French startup tries to keep up with American and Chinese competitors.
Mistral has launched Europe's first artificial intelligence model that uses logical thinking to generate answers, as the French startup tries to keep up with American and Chinese competitors.
The French startup is trying to assert its European roots, enlisting the support of French President Emmanuel Macron, and to differentiate itself, it has made some of its models open source, unlike offerings from OpenAI or Alphabet.
Mistral is considered Europe's best chance to emerge as a competitor in its own artificial intelligence, but it lags behind in market share and revenue, Reuters writes .
On Tuesday, Mistral launched the open-source Magistral Small model with 24 parameters and a more powerful version called Magistral Medium for business customers.
Magistral Medium scored 73.6% in the AIME2024 test, Magistral Small — 70.7%.
With the new Think mode and Flash Answers feature, you can get answers 10 times faster than most competitors, the startup claims.
Mistral Small is available for download on the Hugging Face platform and can speak in languages such as English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, and, unfortunately, Russian.
