French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI has announced a series of new features for its Le Chat AI assistant, including integrated web search, image generation, and the newly launched Pixtral Large model.
Le Chat Feature Upgrade
Users can now access live web content directly through Le Chat, making it easy to obtain the information they need. Additionally, with the Flux Pro model from Black Forest Labs, users can generate high-quality images to meet various creative needs.
In addition to web search and image generation, Le Chat has introduced a canvas interface that allows users to edit generated content directly within the chat window. This feature enables users to write documents, create presentations, and edit code without the need to regenerate responses, greatly enhancing work efficiency.
Launch of Pixtral Large Model
The Pixtral Large model launched by Mistral AI performs exceptionally well in visual tasks. This model is built on Mistral Large2 and has achieved excellent results in multiple industry benchmark tests.
For example, in the MathVista mathematical reasoning test, Pixtral Large scored 69.4%, surpassing competitors such as GPT-4o and Gemini1.5Pro.
Additionally, the model's ability to analyze charts and complex documents has been recognized, allowing it to handle various types of information, including graphics, tables, and formulas.
The Pixtral Large model combines a 123 billion parameter multimodal decoder with a 1 billion parameter visual encoder, capable of processing up to 128 high-resolution images simultaneously, with a maximum context window of 30K.
This enables outstanding performance in document analysis and complex image processing. Mistral AI has stated that Pixtral Large will also be available on the Hugging Face platform with both academic and commercial licenses, facilitating research and applications for different users.
Furthermore, Mistral AI has updated its Mistral Large language model to improve long context understanding and function call accuracy.
The updated model will be provided through Mistral's API and will soon be available on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Pixtral Large paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07073
Model page: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Pixtral-Large-Instruct-2411
Le Chat link: https://auth.mistral.ai/ui/login?flow=b3e9d399-afc8-497b-8f8d-99900b447c08
API link: https://docs.mistral.ai/api/
Key Points:
🌐 Mistral AI adds web search and image generation features to the Le Chat assistant, allowing users to access live web content.
🖌️ The new canvas interface makes document writing, presentation creation, and code editing more convenient.
📈 The Pixtral Large model excels in various visual tasks, outperforming major competitors.
