Pixtral 12B - Mistral vs Stellaris AI

French AI startup Mistral has recently launched its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, which processes both images and text. Built on Mistral's Nemo 12B text model, Pixtral 12B boasts 12 billion parameters (24GB in size), enabling it to perform tasks like captioning images and counting objects within photos.

The model is available for download on GitHub and Hugging Face, under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing for unrestricted use, including fine-tuning and commercial applications.

Pixtral 12B is comparable to other multimodal models such as Anthropic’s Claude family and OpenAI’s GPT-4, capable of answering questions based on images using URLs or base64-encoded formats. While no web demos were available at launch, Mistral plans to roll out testing through its chatbot and API platforms soon.

This release follows the company's significant $645 million funding round, highlighting Mistral’s ambition to compete with major AI players by focusing on open models and corporate consulting services.

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