In this episode, Robert Loft and Haley Hanson dive into French AI startup Mistral’s latest innovation — the release of “Les Ministraux,” a family of generative AI models designed to run directly on edge devices like laptops and phones. With models like Ministral 3B and 8B boasting a 128,000-token context window, they promise privacy-first, low-latency AI for on-device tasks like translation, smart assistants, and local analytics. We explore how Mistral’s models compare to competitors like Meta’s Llama and Google’s Gemma, and what this means for the future of AI running on the edge.
