Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor
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Mistral, the French startup that made waves last year with a record-setting seed funding amount for Europe, has launched a slew of updates today including a new, large foundational model named Pixtral Large.
The company is further upgrading its free web-chased chatbot, Le Chat, adding image generation, web search, and an interactive “canvas,” matching the features of and turning it into a more serious and direct competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
As Mistral AI CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch wrote on his account on the social network X, “At Mistral, we’ve grown aware that to create the best AI experience, one needs to co-design models and product interfaces. Pixtral was trained with high-impact front-end applications in mind and is a good example of that.”
Users who want to try out the new Le Chat features will need to enable them as beta features on the web interface. Note that Le Chat access does require a free Mistral, Google, or Microsoft account to use.
