VentureBeat: Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters. “French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings from Google and OpenAI… The model, called Mistral Small 3.1, processes both text and images with just 24 billion parameters—a fraction of […]

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