VentureBeat November 18, 2024
Mistral, the French startup that made waves last year with a record-setting seed funding amount for Europe, has launched a slew of updates today including a new, large foundational model named Pixtral Large.
The company is further upgrading its free web-chased chatbot, Le Chat, adding image generation, web search, and an interactive “canvas,” matching the features of and turning it into a more serious and direct competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
As Mistral AI CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch wrote on his account on the social network X, “At Mistral, we’ve grown aware that to create the best AI experience, one needs to co-design models and product interfaces. Pixtral was trained with high-impact front-end applications in mind and is a good...