{"slug": "mistral-ai-releases-timestral-a-209m-forecasting-model-family-that-outperforms-3", "title": "Mistral AI Releases Timestral: A 209M Forecasting Model Family That Outperforms Google’s TimesFM-3", "summary": "Mistral AI released Timestral, a time series foundation model family ranging from 5M to 209M parameters, with the 209M model leading GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench among zero-shot models and running on CPU. The 209M Timestral model outperforms Google's TimesFM-3 on those benchmarks, according to MarkTechPost.", "body_md": "Mistral released Timestral, a time series foundation model family from 5M to 209M parameters. The 209M model leads GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench among zero-shot models and runs on CPU.\n\nThe post [Mistral AI Releases Timestral: A 209M Forecasting Model Family That Outperforms Google’s TimesFM-3](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/18/mistral-timestral-time-series-foundation-model/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mistral-ai-releases-timestral-a-209m-forecasting-model-family-that-outperforms-3", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/18/mistral-timestral-time-series-foundation-model/", "published_at": "2026-10-19 01:18:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-19 02:20:20.398382+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "ai-research", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Mistral AI", "Timestral", "Google", "TimesFM-3", "GIFT-Eval", "TIME", "fev-bench", "MarkTechPost"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mistral-ai-releases-timestral-a-209m-forecasting-model-family-that-outperforms-3", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mistral-ai-releases-timestral-a-209m-forecasting-model-family-that-outperforms-3.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mistral-ai-releases-timestral-a-209m-forecasting-model-family-that-outperforms-3.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mistral-ai-releases-timestral-a-209m-forecasting-model-family-that-outperforms-3.jsonld"}}