Mistral AI, the French AI company founded by ex-Google and Meta employees, just overhauled its free, multimodal AI platform—and it comes close to matching, and sometimes even exceeding, paid offerings from OpenAI or Anthropic. 

The suite of AI tools from the Paris-based startup now features web search and image generation capabilities alongside a new visual model that outperforms larger rivals on key benchmarks.

The company has pushed an update to analyze documents, an updated Large Language Model, and Codestral, an LLM focused on coding tasks. 

But the icing on the cake is its use of Flux Pro to generate images, meaning it’s the multimodal chatbot with the best image-generation capabilities currently available. A new Canvas interface enables direct content editing, positioning Le Chat—Mistral’s name of choice for its chatbot UI—as an enterprise-ready workspace tool.

“We’re not chasing AGI at all costs; our mission is to instead place frontier AI in your hands,” Mistral said in a statement, distancing itself from competitors’ broader artificial general intelligence ambitions tha

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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz