Mistral AI presents a new super-fast AI model

Mistral AI announced Mistral Small 3.1. It’s an open-source model that outperforms similar models like GPT-4o Mini or Gemma 3 in several benchmarks and terms of inference speed.

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The details

  • Mistral Small 3.1, built on Mistral Small 3, has improved text performance, multimodal understanding, and an expanded context window (up to 128k tokens).
  • The new model is very fast, with an inference speed of 150 tokens per second. See the benchmark results in the image below.
  • Mistral Small 3.1 is a model designed to handle various AI tasks, such as following instructions, providing conversational assistance, understanding images, and making function calls.
  • The model is perfect for on-device use cases. It can run on a Mac with 32 GB RAM or a single NVIDIA RTX 4090. Ideal for local agentic workflows. It’s available on Hugging Face and Ollama.
Mistral Small 3.1 Benchmark
Mistral Small 3.1 Benchmark (Image by Mistral AI)

Our thoughts

Mistral AI is known for its fast and efficient open-source models that can compete with commercial models. From our perspective, Mistral AI is doing impressive work and is an important part of the open-source AI community. The company is a true European AI champion.

More information: 🔗 Mistral AI


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