Mistral is making a big move! The 124B multimodal giant is now available for free, shaking up the AI community late at night once again. This French AI company, which was established just a year ago, has released two major announcements - the brand new 124B parameter multimodal model Pixtral Large, and the upgraded free chat assistant Le Chat. This inevitably brings to mind the uproar in the industry when Mistral launched its 7B model last December. In just a few months, they have completed a stunning transformation from "follower" to "leader."
Test address: https://huggingface.co/spaces/llamameta/Pixtral-Large-Instruct-2411
Pixtral Large can be regarded as Mistral's "ace in the hole." This massive model with 124 billion parameters not only inherits the powerful text understanding capabilities of Mistral Large 2 but can also handle multimodal content such as images, documents, and charts. The most surprising aspect is its context window length, which reaches 128K, meaning it can process 30 high-definition images or 300 pages of text at once, a level that can compete with OpenAI's GPT-4. In actual evaluations, Pixtral Large's performance is even more impressive. It scored 69.4 points in the MathVista test, surpassing all competitors. In the MM-MT-Bench, which measures real-world application scenarios, it achieved a score of 7.4, defeating established players like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini-1.5 Pro.
If Pixtral Large represents a breakthrough in technology, then the new version of Le Chat is a generous gift for ordinary users. The new version integrates: support for web search and provides citation Canvas features to assist in image generation (powered by FLUX1.1), document understanding and intelligent summarization, and intelligent workflow automation. Most importantly, all these powerful features are available for free, which is undoubtedly a significant benefit for users accustomed to subscription services.
The future is here
Mistral's recent moves not only showcase its strong technical capabilities but also release an important signal: high-quality AI capabilities are becoming more accessible and widespread. As CEO Arthur Mensch stated, "This is an important milestone." For ordinary users, this means we are one step closer to a future where "everyone can use top-tier AI." For the AI industry, this may herald a new round of competitive upgrades that are about to begin. Let us wait and see and witness the next exciting chapter of the AI era.