
Mistral
An open-source AI model that, along with Llama, is expected to commoditize the foundational model market and drive the economic value of proprietary models to zero.
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1/4/2026, 3:45:36 AM
Last Updated
1/4/2026, 3:55:57 AM
Research Retrieved
1/4/2026, 3:55:57 AM
Summary
Mistral refers to two distinct technological entities: a French short-range air defense missile system and a suite of open-source artificial intelligence models. The Mistral missile system, developed by MBDA France starting in 1974, is an infrared-guided weapon based on the SATCP system and has evolved through three major versions. In the AI sector, Mistral AI produces foundational models like Mistral 7B and Mistral 3, which are distributed via platforms like Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. These AI models are central to investment theses suggesting that open-source technology will commoditize foundational AI, shifting value toward infrastructure providers like Groq.
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Research Data
Extracted Attributes
AI Platform
Hugging Face
Missile Type
Infrared homing multipurpose short range air defense system
AI Model Sizes
3B to 675B total parameters
Missile Origin
SATCP (Sol-Air à Très Courte Portée)
AI Model License
Apache 2.0
Missile Manufacturer
MBDA France
Timeline
- Development of the Mistral portable missile system begins in France. (Source: Wikipedia)
1974-01-01
- Introduction of the first version of the missile system, Mistral 1. (Source: Wikipedia)
1990-01-01
- Introduction of the second version of the missile system, Mistral 2. (Source: Wikipedia)
1998-01-01
- Introduction of the third version of the missile system, Mistral 3. (Source: Wikipedia)
2013-01-01
- Initial release of the Mistral 7B AI model (v0.1). (Source: Web Search)
2023-09-27
- Minor release of Mistral 7B AI model (v0.2). (Source: Web Search)
2024-03-23
- Release of Mistral 7B v0.3, adding support for function calling. (Source: Web Search)
2024-05-22
- Update of Mistral-Large-3-675B-Base model on Hugging Face. (Source: Web Search)
2025-12-03
Wikipedia
View on WikipediaMistral (missile)
The Missile Transportable Anti-aérien Léger (English: Transportable lightweight anti-air missile), commonly called Mistral, is a family of French infrared homing multipurpose short range air defense system manufactured by MBDA France (formerly by Matra Défense and then Matra BAe Dynamics). Based on the French SATCP (Sol-Air à Très Courte Portée), the development of the portable system later to become the Mistral began in 1974. The first version of the system was introduced in 1990 (Mistral 1), the second in 1998 (Mistral 2), and the third in 2013 (Mistral 3).
Web Search Results
- Mistral (wind) - Wikipedia
The mistral (French:( "Help:IPA/French"); Catalan: _mestral_; Corsican: _maestrale_; Croatian: _maestral_; Greek: μαΐστρος; Italian: _maestrale_; Maltese: _majjistral_) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean.( It produces sustained winds averaging 50 km/h (30 mph), sometimes reaching 100 km/h (60 mph). It can last for several days.( Periods of the wind exceeding 30 km/h (19 mph; 8.3 m/s; 16 kn) for more than [...] Ido Italiano עברית "מיסטרל (רוח) – Hebrew") ქართული "მისტრალი (ქარი) – Georgian") Latviešu Lietuvių Lombard Magyar "Misztrál (szél) – Hungarian") Македонски Bahasa Melayu "Mistral (angin) – Malay") Nederlands "Mistral (meteorologie) – Dutch") नेपाल भाषा 日本語 Norsk bokmål Norsk nynorsk Occitan "Mistral (vent) – Occitan") Polski Português Română "Mistral (vânt) – Romanian") Русский Српски / srpski Suomi "Mistral (tuuli) – Finnish") [...] The name _mistral_ comes from the Languedoc dialect of the Occitan and means "masterly". The same wind is called _mistrau_ in the Provençal variant of Occitan, _mestral_ in Catalan, _maestrale_ in Italian and Corsican, _maistràle_ or _bentu maestru_ in Sardinian, and _majjistral_ in Maltese.
- Mistral | Mediterranean, Provence & France | Britannica
mistral, cold and dry strong wind in southern France that blows down from the north along the lower Rhône River valley toward the Mediterranean Sea. It may blow continuously for several days at a time, with velocities that average about 74 km (about 45 miles) per hour, and reach to a height of 2 to 3 km (about 1.2 to 1.9 miles). It is strongest and most frequent in winter, and it sometimes causes considerable damage to crops. The velocity of the wind is intensified as it blows down from the [...] This article was most recently revised and updated by John P. Rafferty.
- mistral - Ollama
Mistral is a 7B parameter model, distributed with the Apache license. It is available in both instruct (instruction following) and text completion. The Mistral AI team has noted that Mistral 7B: Outperforms Llama 2 13B on all benchmarks Outperforms Llama 1 34B on many benchmarks Approaches CodeLlama 7B performance on code, while remaining good at English tasks ### Versions [...] Example: ``` curl -X POST -d '{ "model": "mistral", "prompt":"Here is a story about llamas eating grass" }' ``` ## References HuggingFace Mistral AI News Release [...] | Tag | Date | Notes | --- | `v0.3` `latest` | 05/22/2024 | A new version of Mistral 7B that supports function calling. | | `v0.2` | 03/23/2024 | A minor release of Mistral 7B | | `v0.1` | 09/27/2023 | Initial release | ### Function calling Mistral 0.3 supports function calling with Ollama’s raw mode. Example raw prompt
- Mistral AI - LinkedIn
services The future of AI in Europe is being built today. Stay tuned for what’s next! [Likes: 4200, Comments: 78]; Mistral AI (3w): Building Intelligent Document Solutions with Mistral AI ( With Code ) Documents are the hidden bottleneck in every enterprise. Contracts buried in PDFs, invoices lost in email chains, and reports gathering dust in shared drives. Mistral Document AI doesn’t just read files; it understands them, turning static text into structured data that powers workflows, triggers [...] Mistral AI models, and is our most capable model family to date. Mistral 3 is also the most complete model family available, released in sizes from 3B up to 675B total parameters, all released in Apache 2.0. The Mistral 3 family includes: ✅ Ministral 3: A suite of three small models (3B, 8B, 14B), delivering state-of-the-art performance for their size, all with native multimodal capabilities. We’re releasing base, instruct and reasoning variants of each Ministral model. ✅ Mistral Large 3: our [...] Comments: 190]; Joshua Lochner (2d Edited): NEW: Mistral AI releases Mistral 3, a family of multimodal models, including three state-of-the-art dense models (3B, 8B, and 14B) and Mistral Large 3 (675B, 41B active). All Apache 2.0! 🤗 Surprisingly, the 3B is small enough to run 100% locally in your browser on WebGPU! 🤯 Try it out yourself! 👇 [Likes: 684, Comments: 15]; Mistral AI (2d): Introducing Mistral 3: open frontier intelligence of all sizes. 🚀 Mistral 3 is the next generation of open
- mistralai (Mistral AI_) - Hugging Face
Image 71 #### mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Base-2512 Updated Dec 3, 2025• 27 • 37 [...] Image 79 #### mistralai/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512 24B• Updated 12 days ago• 216k • 457Image 80 #### mistralai/Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512 125B• Updated 12 days ago• 14.9k • 255Image 81 #### mistralai/Magistral-Small-2507 24B• Updated 12 days ago• 3.61k • 100Image 82 #### mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 24B• Updated 12 days ago• 178k • 534Image 83 #### mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503 24B• Updated 12 days ago• 81.5k • 1.34kImage 84 #### [...] Image 77 #### mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Base-2512 Updated Dec 3, 2025• 27 • 37
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Mistral, Ferme de la Durette, Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France métropolitaine, 84000, France
Coordinates: 43.9164526, 4.8633451
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