Mistral 3 - Mistral AI Releases Open Source's Newest Series of Multimodal Large Models

What's Mistral 3?

Mistral Mistral Large 3 is the latest multimodal large model series released by Mistral AI as open source, including the flagship model Mistral Large 3 (675B total parameters) and the lightweight version Ministral series (3B/8B/14B), both of which support image comprehension and multilingual processing and are open source using the Apache 2.0 protocol. The Mistral Large 3 is ranked among the top performers among open source models, and the Ministral series is known for its cost-effective performance, with the 14B inference version achieving an accuracy of 85% in the AIME 2025 test. It is especially suited for deployment on edge devices, and takes into account the needs of enterprise-level applications, such as intelligent customer service and data analytics.

Features of Mistral 3

• Powerful performance and multimodal capabilities: Mistral Large 3 is one of the most advanced open weighting models available, with 41 billion active and 675 billion total parameters, supporting multilingual dialog and image understanding, while the Ministral 3 series offers three parameter sizes, 14B, 8B, and 3B, all of which are multimodal and multilingual, supporting over 40 languages.
• Cost-effective and optimized: The Ministral 3 series excels in performance-to-cost ratio, generating typically an order of magnitude fewer tokens than comparable models. the Mistral Large 3 is optimized to run efficiently on Blackwell NVL72 systems as well as on a single 8×A100 or 8×H100 node.
• Wide range of applicability: The Mistral Large 3 is for enterprise applications that require cutting-edge reasoning capabilities, while the Ministral 3 series is optimized for edge computing and local deployments, running on both personal and edge devices.
• Open Source and Customization: All Mistral 3 series models are open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and are available in both base and instruction-fine-tuned versions.Mistral AI also offers a custom model training service, which can be fine-tuned or adapted to meet user needs.
• Multi-platform support: Mistral 3 series models are available on multiple platforms, including Mistral AI Studio, Amazon Bedrock, Azure Foundry, Hugging Face, and more, making it easy for users to choose how to deploy them according to their needs.

Core Benefits of Mistral 3

• Powerful multimodal and multilingual capabilities: Supports both text and image understanding, covering over 40 languages, for application development in multiple languages and scenarios.
• The ultimate performance-to-cost ratio: The Ministral 3 series significantly reduces the number of tokens generated while maintaining high performance, realizing the best price/performance ratio, especially for resource-constrained edge devices.
• Flexible model sizing options: Multiple model sizes from 3B to 675B parameters are available to meet different needs from edge devices to enterprise level applications.
• Efficient Reasoning and Optimization: Deeply optimized with partners such as NVIDIA to support efficient operation on a wide range of hardware platforms, including data center and edge devices.

What is the official website for Mistral 3

• Project website:: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3
• HuggingFace Model Library:: https://huggingface.co/collections/mistralai/ministral-3

Who Mistral 3 is for

• Developers and researchers: For developers who need high-performance AI models for application development, algorithmic research, or innovation projects, as well as for researchers interested in multimodal and multilingual models.
• Corporate Technical Team: Ideal for organizations looking to integrate advanced AI capabilities into their business, whether it's for data analytics, customer service, content generation or automated workflows, the Mistral 3 Series delivers powerful support.
• Edge Device Manufacturers: For manufacturers of cell phones, embedded devices, or other resource-constrained devices, the high performance and low resource requirements of the Ministral 3 Series make it ideal for enabling native AI functionality.
• Educational institutions and students: Provide powerful tools for the education sector to help students and educators explore AI technologies, conduct teaching experiments or develop educational applications that promote AI knowledge.
• Creative workers and content creators: Ideal for creative people who need to work with AI for creative writing, image generation, video production, and more, Mistral 3's multimodal capabilities inspire even more creativity.
• Open source communities and enthusiasts: The open source feature is suitable for open source community members and enthusiasts interested in AI technology to freely explore, modify and extend the model to promote further development of the technology.