October 16, 2024: Mistral Debuts Efficient AI Models for Devices - Paris-based startup Mistral AI unveiled Ministral 3B and 8B, compact AI models designed for on-device and edge computing, suitable for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices. Known as les Ministraux, these sub-10 billion-parameter models enable local, privacy-first AI tasks, outperforming competitors like Google Gemma and Meta Llama in benchmarks. With features like a 128,000 token context and special sliding window attention for efficiency, these models cater to applications requiring low-latency, such as translation and smart assistants. The launch follows their recent Pixtral 12B model for vision and text processing.
