Pixtral 12B

Mistral AI · 2024 · Multimodal LLM · France

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Mistral AI
C · CEO & Politics: Arthur Mensch — European centrist / pro-EU regulation
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text+Image+Audio
J · Jurisdiction: France
K · Key Staffers: Guillaume Lample (Co-Founder, Chief Scientist), Timothée Lacroix (Co-Founder)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Multimodal LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0); Mistral API retired it on Dec 31, 2025
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Mistral AI's natively multimodal Pixtral 12B: a 12B-parameter decoder plus a 400M-parameter vision encoder, trained on interleaved image and text data, with support for variable image sizes and a 128K context.
S · Stock / Status: Private (€21B+ valuation, Sep 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @MistralAI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Multimodal LLM from Mistral AI, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Pixtral 12B.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/pixtral-12b.html