New updates give Mistral AI’s Le Chat an edge over ChatGPT [Video]

French generative artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is taking the fight to OpenAI with a host of updates announced today. The company announced new chatbot capabilities that surpass those of ChatGPT, and a couple of powerful large language models, including the all-new Pixtral Large and an updated version of Mistral Large.

Mistral’s Le Chat, which means “the cat” in French, is getting about a half-dozen new features that transform it into more of a work assistant, pitting it against rivals like ChatGPT and Anthropic PBC’s Claude.

For instance, Le Chat can now search the web and provide responses with citations, similar to ChatGPT and the generative AI search engine Perplexity. It also gains a new “Canvas” tool that’s similar to ChatGPT’s Canvas, where users can edit, modify and otherwise transform content such as web pages, data visualizations and PowerPoint presentations via text-and voice-based commands.

“You can use [the canvas feature] to create documents, presentations, code, mockups… the …