WAXAL: A large-scale open resource for African language speech technology
Google Research released WAXAL, a large open speech dataset initially covering 27 sub-Saharan African languages spoken by more than 100 million people, under CC-BY-4.0.
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Google Research released WAXAL, a large open speech dataset initially covering 27 sub-Saharan African languages spoken by more than 100 million people, under CC-BY-4.0.
Mistral released Voxtral Transcribe 2, comprising Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for real-time use.
Mistral AI released the next-generation Devstral 2 coding family, including 123B Devstral 2 under a modified MIT licence and 24B Devstral Small 2 under Apache 2.0, both open-source.
Mistral released the Mistral 3 family, comprising 14B, 8B and 3B small dense models and its strongest yet Mistral Large 3, a sparse MoE with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All are open-source under Apache 2.0.
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Mistral AI released Voxtral speech-understanding models in 24B and 3B versions, both under Apache 2.0 and available via its API. With a 32k-token context, they handle up to 30 minutes of transcription or 40 minutes of audio understanding, including built-in question answering and summaries, automatic multilingual detection and voice-triggered function calls, inheriting Mistral Small 3.1's text capabilities.
Mistral AI partnered with All Hands AI to release Devstral Medium and upgrade Devstral Small 1.1.
Mistral AI launched Mistral Compute, a private integrated AI infrastructure stack covering GPUs, orchestration, APIs, products and services, ranging from bare-metal servers to fully managed PaaS.
Mistral AI released its first reasoning model, Magistral, comprising the 24B open-source Magistral Small and enterprise-focused Magistral Medium.
Mistral AI released Agents API, combining its language models with built-in connectors for code execution, image generation, document libraries and web search, plus MCP tools, persistent memory across conversations and agent orchestration.
Mistral AI and All Hands AI jointly released Devstral, an agentic LLM for software engineering tasks, open-source under Apache 2.0.
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1, improving text performance and multimodal understanding over Small 3, expanding context to 128k tokens and reaching 150 tokens per second, under Apache 2.0.
Today we’re introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license.