The French artificial intelligence company Mistral has announced a significant update for its chatbot, Le Chat, introducing a range of new features aimed at enhancing productivity for both individual and enterprise users. The update brings Le Chat closer in capability to competing services from companies like OpenAI and Google. A key new feature is the …
French AI company Mistral has released Voxtral, its first family of open-source AI models for audio processing. The company positions Voxtral as a solution for developers who previously had to choose between less reliable open-source systems and expensive, closed proprietary models. Mistral claims Voxtral offers high performance at “less than half the price” of comparable …
French AI company Mistral has released its first reasoning models and announced plans to build European cloud infrastructure, positioning itself as an alternative to American tech giants. The company unveiled two AI models called Magistral alongside a new data center project near Paris. Magistral Small, with 24 billion parameters, is available as open-source software under …
French AI startup Mistral AI has announced Le Chat Enterprise, a comprehensive AI assistant platform designed for organizations, powered by their new Mistral Medium 3 model. The platform aims to address common enterprise AI challenges such as tool fragmentation, insecure knowledge integration, and slow return on investment by providing a unified solution for organizational work. …
Mistral AI has introduced Mistral OCR, a new optical character recognition API designed to transform complex PDF documents into AI-ready Markdown files. According to TechCrunch’s Romain Dillet, the French large language model developer launched this tool as a solution for organizations struggling to make their document repositories accessible to AI systems. Unlike conventional OCR tools, …
French AI company Mistral’s chatbot Le Chat has achieved one million downloads within 14 days of its launch. According to reporting by Romain Dillet for TechCrunch, the app quickly became the most downloaded free application on iOS in France. French President Emmanuel Macron publicly endorsed Le Chat over competitors like ChatGPT. The app enters a …
French AI company Mistral has released mobile versions of its AI assistant Le Chat for iOS and Android devices. As reported by Romain Dillet for TechCrunch, the app offers a conversation-like interface for interacting with Mistral’s language models. The company also introduced a Pro subscription at $14.99 per month, providing access to their most advanced …
French startup Mistral AI has announced the release of Mistral Small 3, a 24-billion-parameter language model that the company claims matches the performance of models three times its size. According to Mistral AI, the new model achieves 81% accuracy on standard benchmarks while processing 150 tokens per second, making it comparable to Meta’s Llama 3.3 …
The French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI, once considered Europe’s greatest hope in the AI race, is struggling to maintain its competitive position against larger rivals. According to a detailed report by Tim Bradshaw and Leila Abboud in the Financial Times, the Paris-based startup is facing increasing pressure from both US tech giants and emerging …
Major technology companies Google and Mistral AI have announced separate partnerships with leading news agencies to enhance their AI chatbot services. Google has entered an agreement with The Associated Press (AP) to incorporate real-time news feeds into its Gemini app, while Paris-based Mistral AI has partnered with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to improve its Le Chat …