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Gallic AI startup Mistral is releasing a Modern AI framework , Mistral Medium 3 , that ’s pore on efficiency without compromising performance .
Available in Mistral ’s API priced at $ 0.40 per million input tokens and $ 2 per million output token , Mistral Medium 3 performs “ at or above ” 90 % of Anthropic ’s costlier Claude Sonnet 3.7 model on “ benchmarks across the circuit board , ” claims Mistral . It also surpasses recent clear models , including Meta ’s Llama 4 Maverick and Cohere ’s Command A , on pop AI performance evaluation .
Tokens are the bleak bits of datum example work with , with a million item tantamount to about 750,000 words ( just about 163,000 words longer than “ War and Peace ” ) .
“ Mistral Medium 3 can [ … ] be deployed on any swarm , including ego - hosted environments of four GPUs and above , ” explain Mistral in a web log post ship to TechCrunch . “ On pricing , the fashion model pulsate cost leaders such as DeepSeek v3 , both in API and self - deployed system . ”
Mistral , founded in 2023 , is a frontier model science laboratory , aiming to build a range of AI - powered Service , including a chatbot platform , Le Chat , and mobile apps . It ’s backed by VCs include General Catalyst , and has lift over € 1.1 billion ( or so $ 1.24 billion ) to date . Mistral ’s customer admit BNP Paribas , AXA , and Mirakl .
consort to Mistral , Mistral Medium 3 is dear for put on and STEM tasks , and excels at multimodal intellect . The company says that clients in financial services , energy , and healthcare have been beta testing the example for employment cases like customer service , workflow mechanisation , and analyzing complex datasets .
In summation to Mistral ’s API , where enterprise customers can work with Mistral to fine - tune it , Mistral Medium 3 is available on Amazon ’s Sagemaker platform starting Wednesday . It ’ll soon come to other hosts , include Microsoft ’s Azure AI Foundry and Google ’s Vertex AI platforms , the company added .
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The launch of Mistral Medium 3 come after on the heel of Mistral ’s Mistral Small 3.1 in March . In its web log post , the caller teased the release of a much larger example in the coming week .
Mistral on Wednesday also launched Le Chat Enterprise , a corporate - focused chatbot divine service that offer tools like an AI “ agentive role ” builder , and integrates Mistral ’s models with third - political party military service like Gmail , Google Drive , and SharePoint . Le Chat Enterprise wheel out inprivate previewearlier this year , but today marks its ecumenical availability .
Le Chat Enterprise will soon supportMCP , Anthropic ’s criterion for connecting AI assistants to the systems and software where data point domicile . Other major AI model provider , includingGoogleandOpenAI , announce that they would adopt MCP before this year .
Updated 7:48 a.m. Pacific : Fixed a pricing mistake — the version of Mistral ’s blog mail TechCrunch get had a typo . We rue the error .
