Mistral AI offers the Le Chat assistant and a model family including Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4, and Mistral Medium 3.5, with flagship models featuring a 256K token context window and 675B total…
A developer used OpenAI's Codex AI agent to refactor the uutils sed program to handle raw bytes instead of characters, improving compatibility and performance. The agent handled 78 prompts, but 61 req…
Mistral AI, a French AI startup, is gaining attention as a sovereign alternative to US tech, following government actions against Anthropic and European calls for reduced US reliance. The company, whi…
Mistral launched Vibe, a unified AI agent that replaces Le Chat and combines work assistant and coding agent capabilities under a single license. The agent runs on Mistral's own models and infrastruct…
Mistral AI is developing Code and Apps features for its web platform Vibe (Le Chat), moving beyond conversation toward a full product platform. The Code section brings coding agents to the browser, wh…
Mistral AI's Le Chat chatbot repeated state-sponsored disinformation about the Iran war 50% of the time in English and 56.6% in French when prompted on false claims from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian …
Estonia's Institute of the Estonian Language tested 60 AI models against Russian disinformation, finding all four versions of Mistral AI's models scored below 40%, with the best ranking 47th. The benc…
Mistral has adopted a plump cartoon cat as its mascot on the Vibe landing page, directly referencing the viral 'Le Chaton Fat' AI meme that briefly fooled researchers into thinking it was a real model…
Mistral AI rebrands Le Chat as Vibe, a unified AI agent for work and coding tasks. Vibe features Work Mode for multi-step enterprise workflows and Code Mode for remote coding, with a new VS Code exten…
A viral hoax misattributed a fictional AI model named Le Chaton Fat to Mistral AI, after Mistral itself posted and deleted a satirical announcement for a 24-trillion-parameter model. Community memes i…
An audit by NewsGuard found that Mistral AI's chatbot, Le Chat, repeated state-sponsored disinformation from Russia, China, and Iran 50% of the time in English and 56.6% in French, marking a significa…
French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of approximately 3 billion euros, which would value the company at around 20 billion euros. The company, positioning itself as a Europea…
Mistral AI has rebranded its chatbot Le Chat to Vibe, integrating chat, coding agents, and a new Work Mode that autonomously processes tasks across Google Workspace, Outlook, Slack, and GitHub. The co…