Mistral’s Magistral Might Just Be Europe’s Boldest AI Yet

• Mistral launches Magistral built for serious reasoning
• Two models: one open and fast one private and pro-level
• Europe’s first shot at GPT and Gemini? Looks like it
• Tests show strong math and logic scores
• Way faster than some top models
• One free to run one for big business
• Works in lots of languages
• Might change the LLM game in Europe

Magistral is the name. Two versions dropped. One’s open one’s not.

Magistral Small has 24B parameters. It’s open free and built for speed. Anyone can run it even on home gear.

Magistral Medium is the pro version. It’s locked down built for companies and aiming for the big leagues.

How well does it think?

Pretty solid. They ran it through tough math and logic tests like AQUA-RAT MATH and AMAI 2024.

Magistral Medium scored 73.6% on AMAI 2024
With majority voting it hit 90% on 64-shot

Magistral Small got 70% on the same test
And jumped to 83% with voting

So how’s that compare? Not far behind GPT-4 or Claude Opus. But it has one trick they don’t. Speed!

Matthew Berman tested it and said it was really fast. In a demo Magistral finished a chain-of-thought task in 5.3 seconds. OpenAI’s model was still thinking at 17 seconds. So that’s a big gap.

Free or not?

Both yeah and nah.

Magistral Small is open you can download it and run it locally. Great for devs hobbyists and folks who want speed without limits.

Magistral Medium is closed and meant for business. It’ll be available via Mistral’s API or platforms like Le Chat. Price? Not public yet but should match what others charge.

Final word

Mistral’s Magistral might be Europe’s first real swing at the big U.S. players. It’s got speed it’s got logic and it’s got range. Europe’s been in the mix for years but this might be its first real LLM built just for serious reasoning. Mistral says this one’s ready to go toe to toe with OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini.

Looking for an open fast model? Try Small. Got a business and want power? Look at Medium. Either way Magistral’s worth checking out.

Btw the model works in lots of languages, as usual with Mistral. Its step-by-step thinking holds up across different scripts and words. So folks across the globe can use it without losing meaning.

Download: Mistral Small on Huggingface

Ollama: https://ollama.com/library/magistral

Chat UI: Try Magistral directly at Le Chat