MISTRAL RELEASES PIXTRAL 12B, ITS FIRST MULTIMODAL MODEL

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French AI startup Mistral has launched Pixtral 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model capable of processing both images and text. Available via GitHub and Hugging Face, the model can be fine-tuned and used under an Apache 2.0 license. Its release follows Mistral's $645 million funding round and positions the company as a significant player in Europe's AI landscape.