Ministral 8BOpen Weight
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Ministral 8B is an AI model released by Mistral on Wednesday, Oct 16 2024, 35 days after Pixtral 24.09. It is an open-weight model — the trained weights are available to download and run.
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Ministral 8B was released by Mistral on Wednesday, Oct 16 2024.
Ministral 8B was built by Mistral. French AI company building open and commercial models. Founded in 2023 by former Meta and DeepMind researchers.
Partly. Ministral 8B is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.
Mistral's previous tracked release was Pixtral 24.09 on Sep 11 2024, 35 days earlier. It was followed by Ministral 3B on Oct 16 2024.