Mistral Large

Closed weights Mistral AI February 2024

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Mistral AI
Organisation type
Industry
Country
France
Published
26 February 2024

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Language
Task
Chat

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

How it was established
Cost

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware
NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB
Wall-clock time
2,500 hours (104.2 days)

Speculation by Emad Mostaque: 20M euro spent at Scaleway (1.9 euro per H100-hour) would be around 3 months on 4000 H100s.

Compute cost
$14,110,112

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
Training cost

~$20M training cost: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-9-month-old-ai-startup-challenging-silicon-valleys-giants-ee2e4c48 https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1762152740938031484?s=20

Record confidence
Speculative

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Mistral Large, our new flagship model
Last updated
21 July 2026

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Mistral Large was published by Mistral AI, in the country recorded as France, during February 2024. The category the publisher falls under is industry.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of chat.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

What went into building it

Its inclusion criterion: training cost.

Answers

Mistral Large — common questions

01

Mistral Large— who created it?

It was published by Mistral AI, based in France, an organisation categorised as industry.

02

Mistral Large— when was it released?

It was published in February 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

Mistral Large— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of chat. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

04

Mistral Large— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

05

Mistral Large— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

06

Mistral Large— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 21 July 2026

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