# Mistral AI Releases Timestral: A 209M Forecasting Model Family That Outperforms Google’s TimesFM-3

> Source: <https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/18/mistral-timestral-time-series-foundation-model/>
> Published: 2026-10-19 01:18:17+00:00

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.

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