AIster · The agentic age · Launches
Mistral releases the Mistral 3 family under Apache 2.0
The Paris-based lab released a frontier-scale open model and small models for local use
Key facts
- Date
- 2 Dec 2025
- Era
- The agentic age
- Interest
- Launches
- Threads
- Model wars, Open vs closed
- Mistral Large 3
- 675B total, 41B active parameters (mixture of experts)
- Ministral 3
- 3B, 8B and 14B, with base, instruct and reasoning variants
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Followed by
- Devstral 2 coding model (123B, 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified) on 9 Dec 2025
Mistral AI released Mistral 3, a family of open-weight models (the model files anyone can download) under the permissive Apache 2.0 licence. Mistral Large 3 has 675 billion parameters (the numbers a model learns in training), but as a sparse mixture-of-experts model it uses only 41 billion of them at a time; it was trained on 3,000 NVIDIA H200 GPUs. The smaller Ministral 3 models come in 3 billion, 8 billion and 14 billion parameter sizes for use on local and edge devices.
Sources
- Mistral AI, Introducing Mistral 3, 2025-12-02
- Mistral AI, Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI, 2025-12-09