Mistral AI is an advanced French AI startup, founded in 2023 and with the mission to make this innovative technology accessible to everyone, especially to firms, engineers, and researchers using open-source AI models.
Through their motto ’’We exist to make frontier AI accessible to everyone’’, the French startup emphasizes their public domain approach, which lets the public utilize, adjust, incorporate, and assign artificial intelligence models. Meanwhile, OpenAI has full authority over its data governance.
The OpenAI competitor has its own virtual assistant called Le Chat, and it can be used for free on iOS or Android. It has a rating of 4.9 stars, and it has extended to 1 million downloads in the span of two weeks after it was available on smartphones.
According to Mistral AI’s site, Arthur Mensch, Guillame Lample, and Timothée Lacroix are the three main founders who have impressive professional experiences. They have studied at the prestigious École Polytechnique, and in the past, Arthur Mensch has worked at Google’s DeepMind, whereas Guillame Lample and Timothée Lacroix had been employed at Meta.
In addition, the trio was driven by the same ambitions and wanted to implement an innovative approach to AI, which led to a final goal and mission: to question the lack of transparency of other big AI companies, like their OpenAI competitor, and to make it accessible to anybody, using open-access AI models.
Mistral AI has a free option, where you can communicate with a private artificial intelligence assistant for your day-to-day life, but for work-related insights as well.
Next one is the Pro version, which is marked as the most popular due to its advanced productivity and enhanced AI. It is priced at $14.99 per month, and fortunately, there is a student discount for only 12 months, to those who are in college, universities, or academies at $5.99 per month.
Team is the last option, which will help motivate teams through a protective, cooperative AI-assisted workplace, and the price starts from $24.99 per user. Plus, there is an enterprise alternative, in which you can get a customizable plan that offers dedicated services ’’powered by custom models, UI, and tools’’.
When it comes to the use restrictions, the Pro version has many more image generations, 40 times more, to be precise, than the Free plan. The Team model can give up to 200 Flash answers per day, and the Enterprise model 150 per day.
