Model Features and Availability
Mistral's Pixtral 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model, combines language and vision processing, enabling tasks like image captioning and object identification. It is available for download on and .
The model, weighing 24GB, can be used under Mistral's standard license, which allows free use for research and academic purposes but requires a paid license for commercial applications.
Company Background and Legal Considerations
Mistral, seen as Europe's answer to OpenAI, raised $645 million, valuing the company at $6 billion. It has positioned itself aggressively in the AI field, offering open models and partnering with major companies.
The release of Pixtral 12B raises questions about the data sources used for training, amid ongoing debates and lawsuits over the use of public web data by AI firms.