Microsoft-backed Mistral AI unveils new AI models
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- Mistral AI, a generative artificial intelligence startup that has a partnership with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), unveiled two new AI models on Wednesday: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B (collectively known as les Ministraux) are models that are designed for edge devices, such as phones and laptops, as opposed to traditional large language models, which are run on servers.
- “Our most innovative customers and partners have increasingly been asking for local, privacy-first inference for critical applications such as on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, local analytics, and autonomous robotics,” Mistral wrote on the company blog. “Les Ministraux were built to provide a compute-efficient and low-latency solution for these scenarios. From independent hobbyists to global manufacturing teams, les Ministraux deliver for a wide variety of use cases.”
- Both models have context lengths of 128,000 tokens, the company added.
- The models are available for download presently, but only for research purposes. Mistral said the models would be available from its cloud partners for commercial use “shortly.”