🧠 Mistral launches “Magistral”, the AI that reasons step by step — taking on OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, but not all approaches follow the same path. While companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek compete with ever-more powerful, closed models, the French startup Mistral AI is choosing a different direction: transparency, logical reasoning and native multilingualism. With the launch of Magistral, its new language model family, Mistral not only delivers answers but also exposes the reasoning behind them 🔍.

Unlike GPT‑4 or Claude 3, which typically present final results without explaining intermediate steps, Magistral breaks down its reasoning in clear, auditable stages. This is more than a technical upgrade—it’s a philosophical shift that makes AI understandable to its users, ideal for education, research, and highly regulated industries.

⚙️ Magistral doesn’t just match its peers in performance. In tests like AIME 2024, the enterprise-grade variant Magistral Medium exceeded 90 % accuracy using multiple‑vote sampling, rivaling proprietary systems like GPT‑4 and Claude Opus. The open-source Magistral Small also achieves impressive results, outperforming models like Meta’s LLaMA 3 70B and Mistral 7B in logic tasks .

🌍 What truly sets it apart is its multilingual design. Many models—GPT‑4 included—internally convert input to English before processing. Magistral, in contrast, reasons directly in Spanish, French, Arabic or Chinese, enhancing accuracy for non‑English speakers.

The comparison with DeepSeek is especially revealing. The Chinese startup also focuses on chain‑of‑thought reasoning and open-source models, but remains firmly rooted in Mandarin contexts. Mistral, meanwhile, offers a genuinely pan‑European, open, multilingual intuition.

⚡Another standout feature is speed . In “Flash Answers” mode, Magistral can process up to ten times more tokens per second than many competitors, making it suited for real‑time chatbots, assistants and enterprise services.

🧑‍💻.While OpenAI and Google continue deploying increasingly closed-off models, Mistral is offering a powerful alternative. Magistral Small is released under Apache 2.0, enabling researchers, developers—and curious learners—to explore at will.This contrasts with proprietary APIs like Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude.

With Magistral, Mistral AI is not merely launching a model—it’s proposing a new paradigm for interacting with AI: one where the journey to the answer matters as much as the answer itself.

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