Les Ministraux models outperform comparable models from Google's Gemma family and Microsoft's Phi collection, as well as Mistral's own Mistral 7B, on several AI benchmarks designed to evaluate instruction-following and problem-solving capabilities.

Mistral has recently raised $640 million in venture capital and is gradually expanding its AI product portfolio. The company has launched a free service for developers to test its models, an SDK to fine-tune those models, and new models, including a generative model for code called Codestral.