French artificial intelligence firm Mistral is on Tuesday launching its first reasoning model to compete with rival options from the likes of OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.
“We’re announcing in a couple of hours our new reasoning model, which is very much competitive with all the others and has the specificity of being able to reason in multiple languages,” CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal onstage during a fireside chat at London Tech Week.
Reasoning models are systems that can execute more complicated tasks through a step-by-step logical thought process. Mistral’s new model “is great at mathematics [and] great at coding,” according to Mensch.
Other reasoning models on the market currently include OpenAI’s o1, which was released to users of its ChatGPT service late last year and Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s R1.
Mistral, which is backed by U.S. tech giant Microsoft
