Mistral AI launches multilingual content moderation API to tackle harmful content

Mistral AI, a French artificial intelligence startup, has released a new content moderation API capable of detecting harmful content across nine categories in 11 languages. The API, powered by Mistral’s fine-tuned Ministral 8B model, offers both raw text and conversational content analysis, as reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat. This launch positions Mistral to compete …

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Mistral unveils small models for laptops and smartphones

French AI company Mistral has introduced new generative AI models for laptops and smartphones. Known as “Les Ministraux,” the models are optimized for various applications such as text generation or collaboration with more powerful models. Kyle Wiggers reports for TechCrunch that two variants are available: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, both with a context window …

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Pixtral 12B: Mistral’s first multimodal model

French AI startup Mistral has released its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B. In other words, it has 12 billion parameters and can process both images and text. It is based on Mistral’s existing text model Nemo 12B and is said to be able to answer questions about any number of images of any size. Pixtral …

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Mistral raises $640 million

French startup Mistral AI raises $640 million in a funding round, valuing the company at nearly $6 billion. Mistral intends to use the fresh capital to expand its resources for developing open source AI models and to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic in the global competition.

Mistral adds more options for customization

French AI startup Mistral is offering new options for customizing its generative models, including a new software development kit (SDK). This allows developers and enterprises to optimize the models for specific use cases.

Mistral AI announces Mixtral 8x22B

The French startup Mistral AI has released the new AI model Mixtral 8x22B. Interested parties can download and use it free of charge. It is expected to reach and exceed the performance of models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 2 70B.

Mistral Large is a GPT-4 competitor from France

Mistral has already attracted attention with freely available AI language models. Mistral Large is now the most powerful offering with which the French company is targeting OpenAI’s GPT-4. A special feature is its multilingualism. Mistral Large should not only work well in English, but also in French, Spanish, German and Italian. Unfortunately, Mistral Large is …

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