French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models

Mistral AI has released a suite of open source models under the Mistral 3 banner, aiming to scale from a mobile device or drone up to multi-GPU datacenter beasts. While the French company does not share its training data, the decision to open source the models under the Apache 2.0 license is notable. "Open sourcing our models …

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Mistral's Mini-models

Saw a thumbs-up yesterday from a competent person for Mistral's mini models, the rather brilliantly named "Ministral 3". Reckons they're small enough to run on local PC or even smartphone and that he's seeing performance on a par with Google's Gemma3 models (twice as big).