Mistral AI releases Magistral

Released Magistral — Mistral's first reasoning model. Small (24B) under Apache 2.0, Medium commercial. Medium scored 73.6% on AIME2024

Why it matters

The first open-weight reasoning model family from a European lab. A paper on the training infrastructure and RL algorithm was published at the same time

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Officialmistral.aihttps://mistral.ai/news/magistral/

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