Mistral AI Launches Mistral 3 Family With Multimodal, Edge and Cloud Support

Mistral AI released its Mistral 3 model family on December 2, 2025, spanning dense and mixture-of-experts architectures ranging from 3B to 675B parameters. The lineup includes Mistral Large 3, a sparse MoE model, and Ministral 3 dense variants, all licensed under Apache 2.0 for commercial use and fine-tuning. The models support multilingual text and image understanding, extending Mistral's open portfolio beyond text-only capabilities. Deployment is available across major platforms including Amazon Bedrock, Azure Foundry, Hugging Face, and IBM watsonx, with NVIDIA NIM and AWS SageMaker support forthcoming. Mistral also highlighted optimized inference for edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson devices and RTX laptops, positioning the family as a flexible platform across cloud, data center, and edge environments.