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4w ago

Mistral AI Launches Magistral Reasoning Models to Rival OpenAI

The launch extends Mistral’s open-weight portfolio by adding reasoning capabilities tailored to European languages in cloud services, open-source repositories

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Overview

  • Magistral Small, a 24 billion-parameter model, is available under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face.
  • Magistral Medium is in preview on Mistral’s Le Chat platform, the company API and partner clouds.
  • Both models support multilingual step-by-step reasoning with a focus on European languages.
  • Benchmarks show Magistral Medium trailing Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 in physics, math and programming tests.
  • Mistral AI, backed by Microsoft, has raised over €1.1 billion in funding and already offers enterprise services such as Le Chat Enterprise and coding-focused AI tools.