Mistral 3: Major New Vision Model Release
🚀 Introducing Mistral 3
Mistral has just launched four new AI models, expanding their multimodal capabilities:
- Ministral 14B — Compact, high-performance dense model
- Ministral 8B — Balanced efficiency and scale
- Ministral 3B — Ultra-lightweight vision model (~3GB)
- Mistral Large 3 MoE — Mixture of Experts model with 675B parameters (41B active at runtime)
All models are vision-capable and released under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.
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✨ Highlight: Ministral 3B — AI in Your Browser
The 3B model is especially intriguing thanks to its small size and strong multimodal performance. Hugging Face developer Xenova even ran it directly in a browser using WebGPU — no server required:
> The 3B model is small enough to run entirely locally in your browser using WebGPU! 🤯
Try it yourself:
- WebGPU Browser Demo
- Loads the 3GB model in-browser
- Streams input directly from your webcam
- Accepts text prompts based on live visual input
- No external API calls or cloud services involved
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🔧 Using Mistral 3 with the `llm-mistral` Plugin
Mistral’s API-hosted models are already supported by my `llm-mistral` plugin.
Simply run:
$ llm mistral refresh
Added models: ministral-3b-2512, ministral-14b-latest, mistral-large-2512, ministral-14b-2512, ministral-8b-2512This updates your local environment with the latest available models.
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🖼 Model Performance: "Pelican" Test
A quick benchmark with an identical "pelican" prompt produced the following results:
Best output — Mistral Large 3:
Least impressive — Ministral 3B:
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🌍 Why This Matters: Local & Cross-Platform AI for Creators
As open-source AI models like Mistral become:
- Smaller
- More capable
- Cross-platform compatible
…creators can run them entirely locally or deploy via APIs, enabling powerful new workflows.
One example is AiToEarn:
- Helps creators deploy AI models for content creation, publishing, and monetization
- Works across Douyin, Kwai, WeChat, Bilibili, Rednote, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, YouTube, Pinterest, and X
- Includes an open-source toolkit offering:
- AI generation
- Cross-platform publishing
- Analytics
- Model performance rankings
- Supports both local and hosted AI deployment for maximum profitability and efficiency
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Bottom line:
Mistral 3 marks a turning point. Powerful, vision-enabled AI models can now run entirely in your browser or integrate easily into creative workflows — all while remaining fully open-source.
