Mistral unveils Pixtral 12B: A multimodal AI model [Video]

On 11th September, Mistral AI announced its latest advanced AI model capable of processing both images and text. Pixtral 12B, a one of a kind model, employs about 12 billion parameters and is capable of vision encoding, enabling it to interpret images alongside text. It is built on their previous model, Mistral’s Nemo 12B, capable of understanding text, with the addition of features like the 400 million-parameter vision adapter. In a post on X,  Sophia Yang, Head of Developer Relations at MistralAI, shared that the model can be downloaded via a torrent link on GitHub and Hugging Face, and  used under an Apache 2.0 license without restrictions. It will be available on le Chat and la Plateforme soon.

What is Mistral AI?Based in France, and built by former employees of Meta and Google in …