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Indian Express
18-07-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Mistral upgrades Le Chat AI chatbot with features like Think Mode, Deep Research and more
Mistral, the France-based AI startup, is adding a bunch of new features to Le Chat, its AI chatbot that will help it compete against the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. The new update adds a deep research mode, voice recognition and a redesigned image editor, to name a few. In a blog post, Mistral said that the new Deep Research mode turns Le Chat 'into a coordinated research assistant that can plan, clarify your needs, search and synthesize.' What it means is that users can now ask the AI chatbot in-depth questions, which it will answer by gathering information from credible sources and show the answer in an easy-to-understand structured report. The AI startup also rolled out its Vocal mode, which, as the name suggests, lets you talk to the chatbot just like you would talk to a real person. The new feature is powered by the company's voice-in model named Voxtral. Mistral also introduced 'Think mode', a new feature powered by Magistral, the company's reasoning model. The feature helps users by answering complex questions with 'clear, thoughtful answers.' The AI startup says its new mode is helpful for doing things like drafting a proposal in Spanish, understanding a legal concept in Japanese and doing things in your preferred language. If you use AI chatbots for different things, the newly rolled out Projects functionality might help you organise things. This works by grouping related chats into separate spaces, with each project featuring its own Library. As it turns out, the feature will also remember which tools and settings you are using. Users can not only upload files directly into a project, but can also help you pull content like conversations and documents from your Library. Le Chat is also getting a redesigned image editor, which, according to Mistral, can help users edit AI-generated images while preserving characters and detail. All of these features are now live, and you can try them out by heading over to ' or using the mobile app available on Android and iOS.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model
As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. On Tuesday, Mistral announced the release of Voxtral, its first family of audio models aimed at businesses. The company is pitching Voxtral as the first open model that's capable of deploying 'truly usable speech intelligence in production.' In other words, no longer will developers have to choose between a cheap, open system that fumbles transcriptions and doesn't really understand what's being said, and one that functions well, but is closed, leaving developers with a higher bill and less control over deployment. For businesses, that means Voxtral offers an affordable alternative that the company claims is 'less than half the price' of comparable solutions. Mistral says Voxtral can transcribe up to 30 minutes of audio. Due to its LLM backbone, Mistral Small 3.1, it can understand up to 40 minutes, allowing users to ask questions about the audio content, generate summaries, or turn voice commands into real-time actions like calling APIs or running functions. Voxtral is also multilingual, with the ability to transcribe and understand languages including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, German, Dutch, and Italian. The company is offering up two variants of its 'speech understanding models'. The first, Voxtral Small, has 24B parameters for production-scale deployments, and is competitive with ElevenLabs Scribe, GPT-4o-mini, and Gemini 2.5 Flash. The second, Voxtral Mini, has 3 billion parameters for local and edge deployments. There's also an ultra-cheap, stripped-down, fast API version of the 3B model called Voxtral Mini Transcribe that is optimized for transcription-only use cases and promises to outperform OpenAI Whisper for less than half the price. Users can try Voxtral for free by downloading the API on Hugging Face or testing the models in Mistral's chatbot Le Chat. Integrating the API into applications starts at $0.001 per minute, according to the company. The launch comes a month after Mistral announced Magistral, its first family of reasoning models that work through problems step-by-step for improved reliability. Mistral, one of the top AI firms in Europe, is well-known for its advocacy pushing open source AI models. Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that the company is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors like Abu Dhabi's MGX fund.
TechCrunch
15-07-2025
- Business
- TechCrunch
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model
As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. On Tuesday, Mistral announced the release of Voxtral, its first family of audio models aimed at businesses. The company is pitching Voxtral as the first open model that's capable of deploying 'truly usable speech intelligence in production.' In other words, no longer will developers have to choose between a cheap, open system that fumbles transcriptions and doesn't really understand what's being said, and one that functions well, but is closed, leaving developers with a higher bill and less control over deployment. For businesses, that means Voxtral offers an affordable alternative that the company claims is 'less than half the price' of comparable solutions. Image Credits:Mistral Mistral says Voxtral can transcribe up to 30 minutes of audio. Due to its LLM backbone, Mistral Small 3.1, it can understand up to 40 minutes, allowing users to ask questions about the audio content, generate summaries, or turn voice commands into real-time actions like calling APIs or running functions. Voxtral is also multilingual, with the ability to transcribe and understand languages including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, German, Dutch, and Italian. The company is offering up two variants of its 'speech understanding models'. The first, Voxtral Small, has 24B parameters for production-scale deployments, and is competitive with ElevenLabs Scribe, GPT-4o-mini, and Gemini 2.5 Flash. Techcrunch event LIVE NOW! TechCrunch All Stage Build smarter. Scale faster. Connect deeper. Join visionaries from Precursor Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures, Underscore VC, and beyond for a day packed with strategies, workshops, and meaningful connections. Save $450 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass Build smarter. Scale faster. Connect deeper. Join visionaries from Precursor Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures, Underscore VC, and beyond for a day packed with strategies, workshops, and meaningful connections. Boston, MA | REGISTER NOW The second, Voxtral Mini, has 3 billion parameters for local and edge deployments. There's also an ultra-cheap, stripped-down, fast API version of the 3B model called Voxtral Mini Transcribe that is optimized for transcription-only use cases and promises to outperform OpenAI Whisper for less than half the price. Users can try Voxtral for free by downloading the API on Hugging Face or testing the models in Mistral's chatbot Le Chat. Integrating the API into applications starts at $0.001 per minute, according to the company. The launch comes a month after Mistral announced Magistral, its first family of reasoning models that work through problems step-by-step for improved reliability. Mistral, one of the top AI firms in Europe, is well-known for its advocacy pushing open source AI models. Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that the company is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors like Abu Dhabi's MGX fund.
