Mistral AI releases Magistral

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Released Magistral — Mistral's first reasoning model. Small (24B) under Apache 2.0, Medium commercial. Medium scored 73.6% on AIME2024

Why it matters

The first open-weight reasoning model family from a European lab. A paper on the training infrastructure and RL algorithm was published at the same time

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Officialmistral.aihttps://mistral.ai/news/magistral/

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On the map — ⑥ Reasoning Models line

  1. Previous stopAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4
  2. This recordMagistral
  3. Next stopClaude Haiku 4.5
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In the model family tree — Mistral family · 13 versions

  1. Earlier versionCodestral
  2. This recordMagistral
  3. Later versionLeanstral
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