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To: Les H who wrote (49311)	12/7/2025 12:56:52 PM
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Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices Michael Nuñez, VentureBeat, December 2, 2025 Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smartphones and autonomous drones to enterprise cloud systems, marking a major escalation in the company's challenge to both U.S. tech giants and surging Chinese competitors. The Mistral 3 family, launching today, includes a new flagship model called Mistral Large 3 and a suite of smaller " Ministral 3" models optimized for edge computing applications. All models will be released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, allowing unrestricted commercial use — a sharp contrast to the closed systems offered by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The release is a pointed bet by Mistral that the future of artificial intelligence lies not in building ever-larger proprietary systems, but in offering businesses maximum flexibility to customize and deploy AI tailored to their specific needs, often using smaller models that can run without cloud connectivity. The strategic calculus behind Mistral 3 diverges sharply from recent model releases by industry leaders. While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have focused recent launches on increasingly capable "agentic" systems — AI that can autonomously execute complex multi-step tasks — Mistral is prioritizing breadth, efficiency, and what Lample calls "distributed intelligence." Mistral Large 3, the flagship model, employs a Mixture of Experts architecture with 41 billion active parameters drawn from a total pool of 675 billion parameters. The model can process both text and images, handles context windows up to 256,000 tokens, and was trained with particular emphasis on non-English languages — a rarity among frontier AI systems. "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 company said in a statement reviewed ahead of the announcement. But the more significant departure lies in the Ministral 3 lineup: nine compact models across three sizes (14 billion, 8 billion, and 3 billion parameters) and three variants tailored for different use cases. Each variant serves a distinct purpose: base models for extensive customization, instruction-tuned models for general chat and task completion, and reasoning-optimized models for complex logic requiring step-by-step deliberation. The smallest Ministral 3 models can run on devices with as little as 4 gigabytes of video memory using 4-bit quantization — making frontier AI capabilities accessible on standard laptops, smartphones, and embedded systems without requiring expensive cloud infrastructure or even internet connectivity. This approach reflects Mistral's belief that AI's next evolution will be defined not by sheer scale, but by ubiquity: models small enough to run on drones, in vehicles, in robots, and on consumer devices. more... Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices \| VentureBeat