Mistral drops Mistral 3 family under Apache 2.0
Mistral AI just unleashed Mistral 3, an entire family of multimodal models released under a fully permissive Apache 2.0 license. The drop includes Mistral Large 3, a massive 675B-parameter MoE model (41B active), alongside edge-friendly Ministral 3 variants spanning 3B, 8B, and 14B sizes with native vision support. Why it matters: developers get frontier-grade open weights they can actually modify and deploy commercially without restrictive licensing handcuffs.