French AI Giant Storms the Multimodal Battlefield: Mistral AI Launches Open Source Multimodal Understanding Model Pixtral 12B

Mistral AI has launched Pixtral12B, the first open-source multimodal model with 12 billion parameters, capable of processing both images and text. At 23.64GB, it's lightweight and offers easy access to model weights, reducing energy consumption and deployment barriers. It outperforms several established multimodal models in benchmark tests, driving a wave of open-source innovation in AI.....