Le Chat is a free chatbot accessible to everyone. To start using this tool, go to chat.mistral.ai. Once on the platform, creating an account is necessary, which you can do using either your email address or a Google or Microsoft account. As soon as your account is activated, all you have to do is log in and… use the bot!
How to connect to Le Chat?
If you are already familiar with tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, you will find Le Chat’s interface intuitive and easy to use. Otherwise, note that the tool allows you to select the artificial intelligence model you wish to use among several offered by Mistral. Simply click the button next to the text field to choose the template that best suits your needs.
What sets Le Chat apart from other chatbots is the diversity of AI models it makes available. Among them, we find in particular Mistral Nemo, a fast and affordable model, but also Codestral, specialized in computer coding, and Mistral Large 2, whose performance rivals the big names in the sector such as GPT-4o and Claude Opus 3.
The big news from Mistral is the launch of Pixtral, a multimodal model which allows you to process not only text, but also images. This technology positions Le Chat at the top of the platforms capable of answering complex questions from visual documents. For example, with Pixtral, it is possible to submit a chart and ask the AI to extract data from it.
This model also displays top-notch performance on document and graphics comprehension tasks, as well as multimodal tasks, making it particularly suitable for in-depth analyses.
From a technical point of view, Pixtral integrates a 400 million parameter vision encoder which is capable of processing images of different sizes and resolutions. This model can handle up to 128,000 tokens, which means it can analyze multiple images at the same time in a long conversational context.
Pixtral’s performance was evaluated on various benchmarks, where it was found to outperform many large models, sometimes even outperforming closed models like Claude 3 Haiku. Mistral highlights Pixtral’s ability to excel in tasks requiring multimodal understanding, without sacrificing its skills on textual benchmarks.
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