State-of-the-art lightweight open source multimodal AI model
Core Idea: Mistral Small 3.1 is a 24 billion parameter multimodal language model that achieves performance comparable to larger proprietary models while requiring significantly fewer computational resources.
Key Elements
Technical Specifications
- 24 billion parameters (smaller than Gemma 3's 27B)
- 128K context window
- Processing speed of approximately 150 tokens per second
- Runs on a single RTX 4090 or Mac OS with 32GB RAM
- Pachi 2.0 license (open source)
Key Features
- Multimodal capabilities (text and image understanding)
- Multilingual support for 21+ languages
- Long document processing and understanding
- Built upon its predecessor, Mistral Small 3
Performance Benchmarks
- Outperforms Gemma 3 27B
- Beats GPT-4 Omni Mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku in certain benchmarks
- Strong in general knowledge domains
- Demonstrates advanced reasoning and problem-solving capabilities
- Evaluated on MMLU, GPQA, and other standard benchmarks
Application Strengths
- Programming and code generation
- Mathematical reasoning
- Dialog systems
- Visual understanding
- Document summarization
- Low-latency applications
Deployment Options
- Le platform (Mistral's chatbot interface)
- Hugging Face model cards
- Google Cloud's Vertex AI
- Open Router
- Local deployment via Ollama (pending availability)
Connections
- Related Concepts: Mistral (family of models), Gemma 3 (competitor open source model from Google), Multimodal AI Models (broader category it belongs to)
- Broader Context: Open Source AI Models (part of this movement)
- Applications: Local AI Deployment (ideal use case), Code Generation (strength area)
- Components: AI Context Windows (feature), Multilingual AI (capability)
References
- Video demonstration comparing Mistral Small 3.1 to other models
- Benchmarking results against GPT-4 Omni Mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku
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