French start-up Mistral has released two versions of Magistral, Europe’s first reasoning model.
AI reasoning models are designed to enable artificial intelligence to draw logical conclusions, solve problems and make decisions.
These models aim to mimic human reasoning processes, helping AI to understand complex scenarios and respond intelligently.
Mistral announced the release of the AI model in both open source and a more powerful enterprise variants, called Magistral Small and Magistral Medium.
The company said the models can work in all global languages and alphabets and are suitable for a wide range of business use cases, from structured calculations and programmatic logic to decision trees and rule-based systems.
“With the new Think mode and Flash Answers in Le Chat, you can get responses at 10x the speed compared to most competitors,” the firm said in a statement.
According to the start-up, the technology is particularly well suited for reasoning in languages such as English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Russian and simplified Chinese.
Mistral stated that with the launch it has also published documents containing comprehensive evaluations of Magistral, its training infrastructure, the reinforcement learning algorithm and new observations for training reasoning models.
“As we’ve open-sourced Magistral Small, we welcome the community to examine, modify and build upon its architecture and reasoning processes to further accelerate the emergence of thinking language models,” the business added.
The model was specifically designed for longer processing and higher accuracy typical of a large number of tasks, including legal research, financial forecasting, software development and creative storytelling, making it suitable for a variety of industries, including legal, finance, healthcare and government.
The company said that the model also works well in the creative industries.
“Our early tests indicated that Magistral is an excellent creative companion. We highly recommend it for creative writing and storytelling, with the model capable of producing coherent or — if needed — delightfully eccentric copy,” the start-up continued.
Last month, the start-up expanded its partnership with Capgemini and software company SAP and Mistral AI to offer bespoke generative AI (genAI) solutions for highly regulated industries.
https://nationaltechnology.co.uk/Capgemini_sap_and_mistral_ai_to_roll_out_genai_for_highly_regulated_industries.php
The move will see the IT company implement tailored genAI solutions within SAP environments, with a focus on supporting industries with stringent data requirements such as financial services, public sector, aerospace and defence, energy and utilities.
