Today we’re introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license.Mistral Small 3 is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B, and is an excellent open replacement for opaque proprietary models like GPT4o-mini. Mistral Small 3 is on par with Llama 3.3 70B instruct, while being more than 3x faster on the same hardware.Mistral Small 3 is a pre-trained and instructed model catered to the ‘80%’ of generative AI tasks—those ...