Mistral AI releases Mistral Small 3
Released Mistral Small 3 — a latency-optimized 24B model, with both pretrained and instruction-tuned checkpoints under Apache 2.0
Why it matters
Mistral recommitted to Apache 2.0 for its general-purpose models while moving away from MRL-licensed ones; company-reported over 81% on MMLU at 150 tokens/s
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Officialmistral.aihttps://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-3Added in Week 41, 2026 · See that week