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# Mistral AI

Mistral’s foundation-model lineup for general multimodal, reasoning and coding tasks, via API or licensed self-hosting.

- Company / organization: Mistral AI
- Company country / region: France · Registered office
- Category: Foundation models
- Official website: [https://console.mistral.ai/](https://console.mistral.ai/)
- Profile updated: 2026-10-24


## Overview

This entry covers Mistral AI’s model lineup, including Mistral Large, Medium, Small and Ministral. Developers choose a model and submit text, code and supported images to generate responses, code or tool requests. Open-weight models can also be deployed under their respective licenses. The official catalog separates general models from OCR, speech and embedding models. Mistral Vibe, formerly Le Chat, is its user-facing application.

## Company background

- Company website: https://mistral.ai/
- Founded: 2023
- Founders: Arthur Mensch · Guillaume Lample · Timothee Lacroix
- Business focus: Develops language and multimodal models, model APIs, enterprise AI solutions and end-user assistants.

### Other listed products from this company
- [Mistral Vibe](../../../products/mistral-vibe--b617.html)

## Access options

### API platform · Foundation models

Mistral’s foundation-model lineup for general multimodal, reasoning and coding tasks, via API or licensed self-hosting.

[API platform](https://console.mistral.ai/)

## Official sources and references

- [Official website](https://console.mistral.ai/)
- [Documentation](https://docs.mistral.ai/models)

## Related product news

### Mistral introduces Voxtral 3 for real-time voice and tool use

- Original publication date: 2026-10-20

Voxtral 3 brings transcription, speech generation and a voice-agent SDK into streaming conversations with reasoning and tool use. The announcement lists separate language coverage for transcription and speech generation, offers API and self-deployment options, and allows individual pipeline models to be replaced.

[Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/)

### Mistral Large 4 opens a preview API ahead of weight release

- Original publication date: 2026-10-06

Mistral introduces Large 4 in preview for coding, agent tasks and multimodal understanding. The announcement provides a preview API and schedules weights for later in the month; API preview access does not establish that weights were already downloadable at publication.

[Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/)

## Reading & subscriptions

- [Interactive profile](../../../products/mistral-ai--b616.html)
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