Introducing Mistral 3 | Mistral AI

This post announces the release of Mistral 3, a new generation of models including dense models (Ministral 3: 3B, 8B, 14B) and Mistral Large 3, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All models are released under the Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Large 3 is highlighted as a top-tier open-weight model with image understanding and strong multilingual capabilities, achieving #2 on the LMArena leaderboard for OSS non-reasoning models. The release details significant collaboration with NVIDIA for hardware-software co-design, enabling efficient inference with TensorRT-LLM and SGLang, and optimized serving for MoE architectures on Blackwell NVL72 systems and single-node configurations using vLLM. Ministral models are optimized for edge deployments on various NVIDIA hardware. The post also mentions a reasoning version of Mistral Large 3 is forthcoming.