Mistral 3 Released - France Strikes Back with Open-Source AI That Rivals GPT- 5 and DeepSeek V3.2
Just 24 hours after Deepseek revealed its new open-source AI model, the French company Mistral launched a powerful new open-source model called Mistral Large 3
⚡ The AI race just got a European contender. One day after China’s DeepSeek V3.2 stunned the world, France’s Mistral AI fired back with Mistral 3 Large and 3 smaller models.
This isn’t just another model release. This is Europe proving it belongs in the conversation about who builds the world’s most powerful AI.
The Timing Says Everything
Yesterday, we told you about DeepSeek V3.2’s game-changing release that beat GPT-5 on math and rivaled Gemini 3 Pro. The open-source movement scored a massive win, with China leading the charge.
Today, December 2nd, 2025, Mistral AI - the French startup that’s become Europe’s AI champion - launched Mistral 3, a comprehensive family of models that shows Europe isn’t just watching from the sidelines. With Mistral Large 3 featuring 41 billion active parameters and 675 billion total parameters, they’re bringing serious firepower to the open-source revolution.
And here’s what matters to you: Mistral trains their models with your chats by default. We’re making Mistral 3 available on CamoCopy from day one, and it’s becoming our default model soon. We never use your chats to train models and run all Open Source models on independant EU infrastructure with zero Big Tech dependency.
What Makes Mistral 3 Special?
Mistral didn’t just release one model - they dropped four models at once. Think of it as a complete AI toolkit:
Mistral Large 3 (the flagship): This is the beast. Trained from scratch on 3000 NVIDIA H200 GPUs with a mixture-of-experts architecture, it’s designed for the toughest tasks - complex coding, multilingual document analysis, and reasoning that rivals the best closed-source models.
Ministral 3 series (the efficient warriors): Three sizes (14B, 8B, 3B), three variants each (Base, Instruct, Reasoning). The 14B reasoning variant achieves 85% on AIME 2025 - that’s solving advanced math problems that stump most humans. These smaller models run on laptops, drones, and edge devices while delivering performance that used to require massive servers.
Here’s the philosophy: Mistral built models for every use case, from your smartphone to enterprise data centers. All under the Apache 2.0 license - completely open, completely free to use commercially.
How Does Mistral 3 Stack Up Against DeepSeek?
Let’s be honest: DeepSeek V3.2 is phenomenal. But Mistral 3 brings something different to the table.
| Capability | Mistral Large 3 | DeepSeek V3.2-Speciale | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multilingual Support | 40+ native languages | Primarily English/Chinese | Mistral |
| Multimodal (Text + Images) | Yes, native | Text-focused | Mistral |
| AIME 2025 Math | 85% (14B reasoning) | 96.0% | DeepSeek |
| Deployment Flexibility | 4 model sizes (3B to 675B) | 2 model variants | Mistral |
| Context Window | 256K tokens | Unknown | Mistral |
| Training Transparency | Open architecture details | Limited info | Mistral |
The verdict? DeepSeek wins on pure math performance. But Mistral Large 3 is the more versatile champion - better for multilingual businesses and multimodal applications.
Mistral AI is headquartered in Paris. They’ve raised $2.7 billion at a $13.7 billion valuation - not Silicon Valley money, but enough to compete.
When you use Mistral’s open source models on CamoCopy, your data stays completely in the EU. No unpredictable US regulations. No Chinese data laws. Just GDPR-compliant, privacy-first AI that respects European values.
For businesses operating in the EU, this isn’t just nice to have - it’s becoming essential.
Real-World Performance: The Numbers That Matter
Benchmarks are great, but what can Mistral 3 actually do?
Coding Excellence:
Mistral Large 3 holds its own against GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro in real-world coding tasks. It understands multiple programming languages, debugs complex code, and can work with entire software repositories thanks to that 256K context window.
Multilingual Mastery:
Unlike most AI models that are “English-first,” Mistral is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian with nuanced understanding of grammar and cultural context. Try asking DeepSeek to write marketing copy in French - then try Mistral. The difference is night and day.
Edge Computing:
The Ministral 3 models are game-changers. A 3B parameter model that understands images and runs on a smartphone? That’s the future of AI - distributed, private, and powerful.
Why Open Source Keeps Winning
Two days, two massive open-source releases. First DeepSeek V3.2, now Mistral 3. Seeing a pattern?
While OpenAI keeps GPT-5 locked up and charges premium prices, and Google controls who gets Gemini access, Mistral and DeepSeek are proving that open beats closed.
Here’s what open-source means for you:
- No vendor lock-in: Don’t like how a model works? Modify it.
- True privacy: Run it on your own servers. Your data never leaves your control.
- Transparent: See exactly how the model works. No black boxes.
- Innovation friendly: Researchers can build on it, creating specialized versions for your industry.
The old AI world was controlled by three American companies. The new AI world? It’s being built by French startups, Chinese labs, and a global community of developers who believe AI should be accessible to everyone.
Try Mistral 3 on CamoCopy - Available Now
This is where we get excited. As a European company, we’re thrilled to offer Mistral 3 from day one on CamoCopy. No waitlist. Just world-class AI, hosted on secure European servers, available to you right now.
We’re also making Mistral 3 our default model soon because we believe in supporting European innovation. When French AI can compete with - and in many ways surpass - Silicon Valley’s best, that’s worth celebrating.
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🇪🇺 Try Mistral 3 on CamoCopy - Start Free TodayThe Open-Source AI Revolution Is Here
In 48 hours, we’ve seen:
- China’s DeepSeek V3.2 beat GPT-5 on advanced math
- France’s Mistral 3 launch 4 world-class models at once
- Both completely open-source and free to use
Silicon Valley spent billions building walls around their AI. China and Europe said “let’s tear the walls down” and built something better.
The revolution isn’t coming - it’s already here. And it speaks Chinese, French, English, German, Spanish, and 35+ other languages.
Don’t get left behind using yesterday’s closed-source AI. The future is open, it’s multilingual, and it’s available on European servers right now.
Experience Mistral 3 today on CamoCopy - because the best AI should be open, European, and in your hands. 🇪🇺🚀
👉 Start Using Mistral 3 Now - Free European AIReady to explore both? Check out our DeepSeek V3.2 article to compare the Chinese champion with Europe’s answer. The AI race is global, and you get to choose the winner.
Find out why Mistral Large 3 provides stronger privacy guarantees on CamoCopy than when used via Mistral’s own chat, where your conversations are used for training by default: Mistral vs. CamoCopy
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