Is Mistral a Serious Rival to OpenAI?
With these new tools, the Mistral team is all about user experience, and CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch wrote on his account on the social network X that the company’s new LLM was designed with just this in mind. He said: “At Mistral, we’ve grown aware that to create the best AI experience, one needs to co-design models and product interfaces. Pixtral was trained with high-impact front-end applications in mind and is a good example of that.”
Pixtral Large follows hot on the heels of the Mistral Large 2 model, which arrived in the summer and the multimodal model, Pixtral 12-B. Mistral makes their models available for free download but the license stipulates that usages must be non-commercial, research-focused applications.
Its positioning as a top AI offering from Europe is definitely gathering the platform followers, especially as US tech leaders become more embroiled in US politics. It may behind OpenAI in many respects – including in the enterprise space – but it is iterating fast and obviously has huge ambitions.
