Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is the open-weight flagship of the Mistral 3 release. Its sparse mixture-of-experts model combines multilingual text generation with image understanding and long-context instruction following. Mistral released base and instruction-tuned checkpoints under Apache 2.0, including compressed formats for more practical deployment. The release is an instruction model; a future reasoning edition mentioned in the announcement is not part of this record. Self-hosting still requires substantial memory and distributed serving.
2025-12-02
675B total, 41B active
Sparse mixture-of-experts Transformer
Apache-2.0
Specifications
- Parameters
- 675B total, 41B active
- Architecture
- Sparse mixture-of-experts Transformer
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context Window
- 262,144 tokens
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textimage
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- Mistral Large
- API Access
- Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
- Multilingual Support
- Yes
- Variants
- BaseInstructNVFP4
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- multilingualvisioninstruction followinglong context
- Known Limitations
- Very large weight footprintReasoning edition was only announced as future work
- Notable Use Cases
- enterprise chatdocument question answeringself-hosted assistants