Mistral released Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics.

French AI firm Mistral will release its first reasoning model Tuesday, taking on the likes of OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.

Mistral released Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems…

The company is signaling that the future of reasoning AI will be both powerful and, in a meaningful way, open to all.

OpenAI was targeting an early summer release date for its open model, which is slated to have similar "reasoning" capabilities to OpenAI's o-series of models.

Mistral is considered Europe’s best shot at having a home-grown AI competitor, but has lagged behind in terms of market share and revenue.

Mistral AI partners with Nvidia to launch European AI infrastructure platform, challenging US cloud giants while unveiling breakthrough reasoning models that rival OpenAI.