French AI startup Mistral has introduced Europe’s first reasoning AI model, Magistral. With this step, the company aims to get ahead of the competition with US and Chinese technology giants. The Magistral model can solve complex problems step by step with the chain-of-thought method.

Mistral introduced its reasoning AI model

This approach aims to bring a new breath to the development of artificial intelligence at a time when traditional models based on big data and processing power have reached their limits. Although Mistral lags behind its competitors in terms of market share and revenue, it adopts a different strategy by offering some of its models open source.

This could give the company a significant advantage over competitors such as OpenAI, Google and Chinese DeepSeek, which have more resources. Mistral’s new model consists of two versions: Magistral Small, which is open source, and Magistral Medium, which is more powerful for business customers.

Magistral Small is available for download on the Hugging Face platform and can reason in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Simplified Chinese. Mistral, which makes a significant contribution to Europe’s goal of creating its own AI giant, brings deep thinking and reasoning skills to the forefront with its Magistral model.

This technology shows that AI can develop not only with large models, but also with the capacity to think logically and step by step. The impact of this development on European AI will be followed with interest in the coming period.

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