French start-up Mistral has released a new series of powerful “open” artificial intelligence models, as it pushes to gain a crucial edge in the race to develop the cutting-edge technology.
The Paris-based group on Tuesday claimed its latest large language system, called Mistral Large 3, was one of the world’s best multimodal and multilingual open-weight models, offering the ability to be used in most European languages as well as some Asian ones.
The new release comes amid growing concerns that Europe is falling behind the US and China in AI development. Research last month showed that Chinese developers such as DeepSeek and Alibaba have overtaken their US rivals in the global market for open AI models for the first time this year.