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It's not cheaper than Deepseek V3.1, though, and Deepseek outperforms on nearly everything. And only between 1- 3x the throughput based on the openrouter metrics (near equivalent throughput if you use an FP8 quant). Wish I could be a little more excited about this one.

amai · 14h ago

Mistral seems to be the only company that doesn‘t fake benchmarks. That makes it of course not exciting. But it doesn‘t have to be to be useful.

YetAnotherNick · 12h ago

What are you basing this on?

adt · 14h ago

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

Onawa · 13h ago

Love the information on this guy's website, dislike the layout of information and use of Google Sheets on pages. Makes it difficult to navigate and grok.

boramalper · 20h ago

I guess this one (Mistral Medium 3) won't be open?

kergonath · 16h ago

Correct: https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overvi...

moralestapia · 15h ago

Hmm, bearish on Mistral now. I thought they had a plan to monetize that was much more sophisticated than "freemium".

There's no reason for someone to use this over Anthropic, OpenAI, etc ... they don't even outperform them.

Kuinox · 14h ago

Business can self deploy Mistral models in their infra.

You cant do that with the providers you listed.

moralestapia · 14h ago

Indeed, however in practice almost nobody does it.

They event hint at it on their PR:

"Mistral La Plateforme and Amazon Sagemaker, and soon on IBM WatsonX, NVIDIA NIM, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Cloud Vertex"

My point being, why would you pay to use a Mistral model hosted on Azure, instead of using any other company model hosted on Azure?

My answer to that, yesterday, would have been "because the model is free and unrestricted, I only pay for hardware"; that premise is gone today.

Kuinox · 1h ago

> Indeed, however in practice almost nobody does it.

They released it at the same time of the article we are discussing on...

https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-enterprise

Jackson__ · 15h ago

Ah, but here's the thing!

If you carefully read their performance chart, they beat every open source model they bothered to list.

So if we were in a world in which they released this model, and only the listed open source models existed, they would be le SOTA!

ed · 13h ago

DeepSeek wins most benchmarks according to that chart, so not quite SOTA, and there's no mention of model size so it's hard to compare efficiency

qeternity · 12h ago

> There's no reason for someone to use this over Anthropic, OpenAI, etc

Uh except that you can host this yourself? You just have to license the model. What is the issue?

moralestapia · 10h ago

>You just have to license the model.

That's the issue.

deanc · 14h ago

They are dropping some hints about a larger model and something relating to open models in the final paragraph:

> With the launches of Mistral Small in March and Mistral Medium today, it’s no secret that we’re working on something ‘large’ over the next few weeks. With even our medium-sized model being resoundingly better than flagship open source models such as Llama 4 Maverick, we’re excited to ‘open’ up what’s to come :)

kristianp · 14h ago

The only hint at its size is that it requires "self-hosted environments of four GPUs and above".

bn-l · 17h ago

The medium model is crazy fast. Reminds me of maverick on groq (except better according to their own testing).