Mistral 3

Description: French open-source MoE model with multimodal capabilities

Website: https://mistral.ai

Mistral AI released the Mistral 3 family in December 2025 - a comprehensive collection of open-source models under Apache 2.0 license.

Model Variants

Ministral 3 Series:

• Sizes: 3B, 8B, 14B parameters
• Variants: Base, Instruct, Reasoning
• Highlight: Native image understanding, optimized for edge devices

Mistral Large 3:

• Parameters: 675B total (MoE), 41B active
• Ranking: #2 on LMSYS Arena for open-source non-reasoning models
• Variants: Base, Instruct (Reasoning to follow)

Features

• Languages: Over 40 languages
• Multimodal: Text and images
• Math: 14B reasoning model achieves 85% on AIME ‘25
• Deployment: Optimized for vLLM and TensorRT-LLM

Availability

On Hugging Face, AWS Bedrock, Azure, NVIDIA NIM. Enables on-device AI for IoT and mobile apps.

Application

Low-latency, high-throughput scenarios. Full customization through Apache 2.0 license.