A family of frontier open-source multimodal models
Mistral 3 includes three state-of-the-art small, dense models (14B, 8B, and 3B) and Mistral Large 3 – our most capable model to date – a sparse mixture-of-experts trained with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All models are released under the Apache 2.0 license. The Ministral models represent the best performance-to-cost ratio in their category. At the same time, Mistral Large 3 joins the ranks of frontier instruction-fine-tuned open-source models.
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About Mistral 3 on Product Hunt
“A family of frontier open-source multimodal models”
Mistral 3 launched on Product Hunt on December 3rd, 2025 and earned 423 upvotes and 5 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. Mistral 3 includes three state-of-the-art small, dense models (14B, 8B, and 3B) and Mistral Large 3 – our most capable model to date – a sparse mixture-of-experts trained with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All models are released under the Apache 2.0 license. The Ministral models represent the best performance-to-cost ratio in their category. At the same time, Mistral Large 3 joins the ranks of frontier instruction-fine-tuned open-source models.
On the analytics side, Mistral 3 competes within Android, Open Source and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 591.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Mistral 3 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Mistral 3?
Mistral 3 was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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