French AI startup Mistral has released its first ever multimodal model called Pixtral 12B, competing with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. The 12-billion-parameter model is capable of processing both images and text, and currently uses its existing text-based model Nemo 12B. Pixtral 12B is expected to be integrated into the company’s chatbot, Le Chat, and API platform, La Platforme, according to the company’s head of developer relations. You can download the model via the torrent link.