Mistral has entered the chat

AI is as much a pursuit of seamless interaction between human and machine intelligence, as it is of frontier science that makes machines reason better. At Mistral AI, we began our journey by developing state of the art models; we have now begun to invest in AI interfaces, starting with some big updates to le Chat.

What’s New

If you’re new to le Chat, welcome! Le Chat [/lə ʃa/, French: ‘the cat’] is the free generative AI work assistant from Mistral AI. You can use le Chat as your creative partner, teach it to perform specific tasks, use it as a coding copilot… basically, use it to get stuff done.

Today, we’re giving le Chat new powers (in beta). Here’s a quick summary:

1. Web search with citations
2. Canvas for ideation, in-line editing, and export
3. State of the art document and image understanding, powered by the new multimodal Pixtral Large
4. Image generation, powered by Black Forest Labs Flux Pro
5. Fully integrated offering, from models to outputs
6. Faster responses powered by speculative editing

Here’s how le Chat compares to leading chat and search assistants in the market today:

Let’s dive in.

Web search

A significant share of le Chat usage comes from students and professionals who use it for learning, research, and work. To help better facilitate these use cases, we’ve augmented le Chat’s training knowledge with internet search.

Here’s one of our marketing teammates using it to assess the AI market for healthcare.

With state of the art language models that have access to the latest knowledge and happenings, you have a powerful tool to level up your work.

Canvas

Canvas is a new interface that pops up in your le Chat window when you need to go beyond conversations and into ideation. It enables you to collaborate with Mistral LLMs on shared outputs, enabling 0-1 creation and ideation for knowledge work.

No longer restricted to bidirectional conversations, Canvas enables you to directly modify, edit or transform content aided by the powerful reasoning capabilities of LLMs.

Here’s a video of our product team creating a react mockup of a product metrics dashboard in preparation for the launch of Canvas.

You can use Canvas to create documents, presentations, code, mockups… the list goes on. As you can see, you’re able to modify its contents in place without regenerating responses, version your drafts, and preview your designs.

Canvas allows for infinite creative ideation for any team.

Fast and accurate document understanding

Le Chat is now able to process large, complex PDF documents and images, for analysis and summarization. Simply attach documents to your chat bar and get insights on anything—graphs, tables, diagrams, text, formulae, equations… basically, the entirety of the document.

These advanced capabilities are made possible by the new Pixtral Large, a state of the art multimodal model that is significantly more powerful than our previous vision model, Pixtral 12B, in conjunction with an experimental model (more on that in a few weeks).

In the example below, we show the extraction of information, summarization, and semantic understanding of the famous quantum entanglement paper from 1935 authored by Einstein, Podolsy, and Rosen.

Image generation

We have partnered with our friends at Black Forest Labs to bring their leading image generation models to le Chat. You can now generate high quality images for your work right from within le Chat.

Le Chat Agents to automate repetitive workflows

If you find yourself reusing prompts, or if you’ve identified certain patterns of creative work that you prefer to be automated, you can codify these workflows as agents. Popular use cases include receipt scanning for expense reporting, creating TL;DR’s of long meeting minutes, and invoice processing.

Agents can be published and shared with your teammates. You can ideate recursively, and build increasingly powerful agents that help you get your work done faster. For more on agents, check out this blog or our documentation.

How much does all of this cost?

Currently, all of these features are introduced as free beta offerings. At Mistral AI, our approach to AI is different – we’re not chasing AGI at all costs; our mission is to instead place frontier AI in your hands, so you get to decide what to do with advanced AI capabilities. This approach has allowed us to be quite frugal with our capital, while consistently delivering frontier capabilities at affordable price points. On le Chat, we’re offering a generous free tier with these beta features and working towards premium tiers with higher service guarantees.

Try it

Head over to chat.mistral.ai to try le Chat. If your current AI-productivity toolchain is siloed or expensive, le Chat will give you an alternative to do your best work. All new features will be rolled out gradually over the next few weeks—be sure to let us know what you think!