1/30/2025
What this post added
Introduces Mistral Small 3, a 24B-parameter model optimized for latency and local deployment. Highlights its performance benchmarks against larger models and proprietary alternatives, and details its suitability for conversational AI, function calling, fine-tuning, and local inference. The post also reiterates Mistral AI's commitment to Apache 2.0 licensing for general-purpose models and mentions upcoming releases with boosted reasoning capabilities.