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Beyond Mistral and Qwen: Google Gemini Embedding Tops MTEB, Takes Top Spot as Strongest Text Embedding AI Model
On March 10, Google announced in a blog post on March 7 the launch of Gemini Embedding, an AI-based text processing model that is now integrated into the Gemini API. The model came out on top in the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB), outperforming competitors such as Mistral, Cohere, and Qwen to become the most powerful text embedding model available today, Cohere, and Qwen, making it the most powerful text embedding model available today. Gemini Embedding...- 957
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Mistral embraces open source: teases new AI model that will outperform DeepSeek
March 8 - The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday (March 7) that Mistral AI, a French company known as the "European version of OpenAI," plans to embrace an open-source strategy and release a new model that goes beyond DeepSeek. Speaking at Mobile World Congress 2025, Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch said the company will adopt an open-source strategy to develop more powerful AI technology at a low cost, which will not only help the company to iterate quickly in the competition, but also promote global AI ...- 1.1k
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Mistral AI Launches Mistral OCR API: Claims Fastest and Most Accurate Optical Character Recognition for $1 per Thousand Pages
March 7 news, Mistral AI local time 6 announced the launch of Mistral OCR API, and claimed that the API has the best performance in the field of OCR optical character recognition. Mistral AI said the API has excellent multimodal document processing capabilities, from PDF, slides, mathematical expressions, LaTeX academic documents and other complex document elements to extract text content, the results will be clearly presented in the form of Markdown files. Mistral OCR models can...- 1.1k
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French AI startup Mistral CEO says company won't sell, plans IPO
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Arthur Mensch, founder and chief executive officer of French AI startup Mistral AI, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday that the company is not for sale and is planning to go through an IPO. Arthur Mensch also said in the interview that the company is opening an office in Singapore to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, and is continuing to grow its business in Europe and the United States. continuing to grow its business in Europe and the United States. Like its larger U.S. rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, the company was founded in 202...- 1.5k
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Mistral AI's Codestral Model Gets 25.01 Update: Support for Over 80 Programming Languages, Context Length Increased to 256,000 Tokens
Recently, Mistral AI announced the release of version 25.01 of its Codestral programming model, with officials emphasizing that the release features major improvements in terms of processing context length and code completion efficiency. Specifically, Codestral 25.01 increases the model's supported context length by 256,000 tokens, which is claimed to be able to effectively deal with large-scale projects and complex code generation needs, and the new version of the model also supports more than 80 programming languages, covering Python, Java, JavaScript ...- 1.2k
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Mistral Releases Pixtral Large Multimodal AI Model: Tops Complex Math Reasoning, Diagram/Document Reasoning Over GPT-4o
Nov. 19 - Mistral AI announced yesterday, Nov. 18, a new multimodal AI model, Pixtral Large, with 124 billion parameters, based on Mistral Large 2, and designed primarily for processing text and images. Pixtral Large is now available under the Mistral Research License and Commercial License for research, education, and commercial use. Pixtral Large is a Mistral ...- 2.5k
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Mistral Releases Content Audit API: Supports 11 Languages Including Chinese, Categorizes Hate Speech and 9 Other Categories
In a Nov. 8 blog post, tech media outlet WinBuzzer reported that Mistral AI has launched a new content review API to meet the growing demand for a secure online environment. Citing a press release, the content vetting API is based on a fine-tuned Ministral 8B model that categorizes content into nine categories, including hate speech, violence, and personal data breaches. The content review API supports Chinese, Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish... -
Mistral launches free package for developers to test their AI models
French AI startup Mistral AI has launched a new free package that lets developers fine-tune and build test applications using the startup's AI models, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The startup has also dramatically slashed the price for developers to access its AI models via API endpoints and added image processing capabilities to its free consumer AI chatbot, Le Chat. Mistral has launched a free package through its API services platform, la Plateforme, which allows developers to experiment without cost, review...- 8.3k
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Pixtral 12B Released: Mistral Open Sources First Multimodal AI Big Model
TechCrunch reported yesterday (September 11) that French AI startup Mistral has released Pixtral 12B, the company's first multimodal AI big speech model capable of processing images and text simultaneously. The Pixtral 12B model has 12 billion parameters, or about 24GB in size, and the parameters roughly correspond to the model's problem-solving ability, with models with more parameters generally performing better than those with fewer parameters. The Pixtral 12B model is based on the text model Nemo 12B...- 8.9k
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Mistral releases Large 2 flagship AI model with 123 billion parameters: supports more than 80 programming languages, enhances code generation, math and reasoning capabilities
AI competition is becoming increasingly fierce. After Meta launched the open source Llama 3.1 model yesterday, French artificial intelligence startup Mistral also joined the competition and launched the next-generation flagship model Mistral Large 2. Model Introduction The model has a total of 123 billion parameters and is more powerful than its predecessor in code generation, mathematics, and reasoning, and provides more powerful multi-language support and advanced function calling capabilities. Mistral Large 2 has a 128k context window and supports languages including Chinese in…- 3.3k
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Mistral's new model Codestral Mamba is faster and can process text twice as long as GPT-4o
Recently, French AI startup Mistral released a new coding model - Codestral Mamba. This model is not only fast, but also can process longer codes, helping programmers and developers improve their work efficiency. Mistral has accumulated a lot of fame in the field of open source AI, and the Codestral Mamba launched this time is even more eye-catching. Codestral Mamba is based on a new architecture called "Mamba", which is more efficient than the traditional transformer architecture. Its design allows the model to process...- 3.5k
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With 600 million euros in financing, the valuation of Mistral, the "European rival of OpenAI", soared to nearly 6 billion euros
According to a report by the Financial Times early this morning Beijing time, Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI has now raised 600 million euros in funding, with a valuation of nearly 6 billion euros (about 46.8 billion yuan before). The company, which is backed by Microsoft and Nvidia, has just been established for a year and is seen as a "potential challenger" to OpenAI. Since December (last year), the investment in the company has tripled its valuation. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said in an interview: "From the beginning... -
Mistral releases its first code generation AI model Codestral
Mistral, a French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, recently released its first generative AI model for coding, Codestral. The model is designed to help developers write and interact with code, supporting more than 80 programming languages including Python, Java, C++ and JavaScript. Mistral said in its blog post that Codestral can complete coding functions, write tests, fill in parts of the code, and answer questions about the code base in English. Although Mis…- 3.6k
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French AI startup Mistral AI is close to reaching new financing agreement with a valuation of $6 billion
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal today, French startup Mistral AI is about to reach an agreement to raise funds at a valuation of $6 billion (currently about 43.38 billion yuan), which is almost three times the valuation six months ago. In the financing last December, Mistral was valued at $2.15 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, existing backers General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners are expected to be the new…- 1.4k
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OpenAI competitor Mistral in talks to raise funding at $5 billion valuation
According to the latest news, OpenAI's European competitor Mistral is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of up to $5 billion. Mistral, a Paris-based open source artificial intelligence startup, has been in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of $5 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The company only recently began to generate revenue, having raised $415 million in December last year at a valuation of $2 billion. Source Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney Mi…- 2.2k
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Microsoft diversifies its AI field layout: not completely relying on OpenAI, and starting to support Mistral
Microsoft's layout in the field of AI has aroused the attention of many media and followers. The official announcement of a multi-year cooperation plan with the French company Mistral AI has triggered many speculations. Microsoft published an article on its Azure blog saying that through cooperation with Mistral AI, its large language model can be used on Microsoft's Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure. In addition, Azure AI Studio customers can also access the large language model Mistral Large. According to the Financial Times, Microsoft also...- 1.2k
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French AI company Mistral receives investment from Microsoft and launches chatbot Le Chat to challenge ChatGPT
Recently, the highly anticipated French AI company Mistral announced the launch of its AI chatbot Le Chat. This chatbot is seen as a strong competitor to ChatGPT and is designed to become a "conversation portal" for users to interact with Mistral's various models (such as Mistral Large, Mistral Small, and Next). Currently, Le Chat has opened Beta testing, and users can experience it by registering as a Beta tester. In addition, Mi…- 2.3k
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3.5 billion yuan! Mistral AI, an open source ChatGPT platform, receives another huge round of financing
On December 6, Bloomberg reported that Mistral AI, an open source ChatGPT platform, received 450 million euros (nearly 3.5 billion yuan) in financing, with a valuation of nearly 2 billion US dollars (14.2 billion yuan). This investment was made by NVIDIA, Salesforce, etc. Mistral AI's open source large language model Mistral7B features small parameters, low energy consumption, strong performance, and allows commercialization. It supports text/code generation, data fine-tuning, content summary, etc., and currently has 4,500 stars on GitHub. It is worth mentioning that Mistral AI was once in...- 2.7k