Mistral AI releases the Mistral 3 family

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Released the Mistral 3 family — Mistral Large 3 (675B total / 41B active MoE), Ministral 3 14B/8B/3B. All models under Apache 2.0

Why it matters

Released a 675B-class frontier model under Apache 2.0. The largest fully open release in the West as of late 2025

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Officialmistral.aihttps://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3/

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On the map — ⑨ Open-Weight Lineage line

  1. Previous stopKimi K2 Thinking
  2. This recordMistral 3
  3. Next stopK-EXAONE 2.0
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In the model family tree — Mistral family · 13 versions

  1. Earlier versionMistral Small 3
  2. This recordMistral 3
  3. Later versionMistral Small 4
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