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Mini Transcribe 3 costs $0.0035/min, Small $0.004/min, realtime $0.008/min, TTS $13 per million characters. Benchmark wins over Whisper large-v3 are Mistral's own claims.
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Mistral released Timestral, its first time-series foundation models. The 209M model tops three zero-shot benchmarks with a single checkpoint, and the 28M model reportedly beats Chronos-2, which is about four times larger.
On an 8-thread server CPU, the smallest takes roughly 10 ms per forecast, with no GPU needed.
Mistral OCR 4 adds bounding boxes, block classification and per-word confidence scores across 170 languages, and reports a 72% win rate over rivals on 600+ documents. It costs $4 per 1,000 pages.
The founder of an open-source OCR competitor is wary: he points out Mistral leaned on its own internal benchmark while calling the public OmniDocBench and OlmOCRBench results 'limited' — and that earlier Mistral OCR versions tested far worse than promised. Commenters also flagged a truncated benchmark y-axis starting at 50.
