IBL News | New York
French AI start-Mistral significantly upgraded its web assistant interface, Le Chat, released a mobile app on iOS and Android and introduced a Pro tier for $14.99 monthly.
The company’s flagship models, Mistral Large, and the multimodal Pixtral Large, were available for commercial use through an API or cloud, such as Azure AI Studio, Amazon Bedrock, and Google’s Vertex AI.
It also released several open-weight models under the Apache 2.0 license.
Mistral is trying to position itself as a credible alternative to OpenAI, Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot.
Mistral stated that Le Chat runs on “the fastest inference engines on the planet,” which can answer up to 1,000 words per second.
It also claims that it generates much better images than ChatGPT or Grok, as it relies on Black Forest Labs’ Flux Ultra, one of the leading image-generation models.
