Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · 2025-12-02 · 8.9B parameters
Ministral 3 8B is Mistral AI's dense multimodal model for edge and local deployment, released in December 2025 and exposed through the API as `ministral-8b-2512`. It accepts text and images and produces multilingual text; Mistral publishes separate Base, Instruct, and Reasoning checkpoints, while the hosted model card links this API snapshot to the Instruct weights. Its released configuration supports 262,144 positions using YaRN scaling from an original 16,384-position window.