Mistral Large 3 Released
Narrative
European flagship model competitive with GPT-4.5 and Claude Opus 4. 128K context. Function calling optimized. €2/M input, €6/M output pricing.
Reality
Benchmarks competitive: 87.2% MMLU-Pro, 89.1% HumanEval. European data sovereignty compliance built-in. Pricing aggressive. Function calling excellent. European enterprise adoption strong.
Implication
Established European AI independence. Data sovereignty became selling point. Demonstrated viable alternative to US labs. EU AI Act compliance as competitive advantage.