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 is about empowering the developer community and really putting AI in people's hands, allowing them to own their AI future," Mistral said.

Mistral Large 3 is the big brother of the lineup and has been trained on a variety of languages, meaning non-English speakers can employ it. "Most AI labs focus on their native language, but Mistral Large 3 was trained on a wide variety of languages, making advanced AI useful for billions who speak different native languages," the firm said.

While other AI platforms also claim multilingual abilities, most tend ...