Pixtral
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Mistral AI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Arthur Mensch — European centrist / pro-EU regulation
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- 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 Pixtral 12B on Dec 31, 2025
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.45
- R · What Makes It Special
- Mistral AI's Pixtral 12B (September 17, 2024), a natively multimodal model trained on interleaved image and text data, pairing a new 400M-parameter vision encoder with a 12B decoder based on Mistral NeMo; it accepts variable image sizes and multiple images in a 128K-token context while keeping state-of-the-art text-only performance. Released under Apache 2.0, it is no longer maintained, and Mistral retired it from its API on December 31, 2025.
- 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 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Pixtral.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/pixtral-mistral-ai.html
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