# Introducing Mistral 3

DevFeed: [Introducing Mistral 3](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-mistral-3-7040.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3/>)

Published: 2025-12-02T16:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Mistral AI Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mistral-ai-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [Open Source Models & Datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-models-datasets.md>), [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>), [NVFP4](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvfp4.md>), [vllm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vllm.md>), [Blackwell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blackwell.md>)

Tags: [apache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache.md>), [blackwell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blackwell.md>), [mistral](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mistral.md>), [mixture-of-experts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mixture-of-experts.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [nvfp4](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvfp4.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [vllm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vllm.md>)

## AI overview

Mistral announces Mistral 3, a family of open models including compact dense models and Mistral Large 3, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 41B active and 675B total parameters. The models are released under Apache 2.0, with compressed formats and optimized checkpoints intended to improve accessibility, customization, and deployment across developer and enterprise environments.

## Source excerpt

The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.