Mistral has entered the chat

AI is as much a pursuit of seamless interaction between human and machine intelligence, as it is of frontier science that makes machines reason better. At Mistral AI, we began our journey by developing state of the art models; we have now begun to invest in AI interfaces, starting with some big updates to le Chat.

What’s New

If you’re new to le Chat, welcome! Le Chat [/lə ʃa/, French: ‘the cat’] is the free generative AI work assistant from Mistral AI. You can use le Chat as your creative partner, teach it to perform specific tasks, use it as a coding copilot… basically, use it to get stuff done.

Today, we’re giving le Chat new powers (in beta). Here’s a quick summary:

Web search with citations
Canvas for ideation, in-line editing, and export
State of the art document and image understanding, powered by the new multimodal Pixtral Large
Image generation, powered by Black Forest Labs Flux Pro
Fully integrated offering, from models to outputs
Faster responses powered by speculative editing

Here’s how le Chat compares to leading chat and search assistants in the market today:

Feature	ChatGPT	Perplexity	Claude	Le Chat
Access to latest frontier model	Paid	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web search with citations	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Canvas for ideation, in-line editing, and export	Paid	No	Limited	Yes
Image generation	Yes	No	No	Yes
Image / document analysis	Yes	Paid	Yes	Yes
Task agents	Paid	No	No	Yes
Single platform from models to outputs	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

Let’s dive in.

Web search

A significant share of le Chat usage comes from students and professionals who use it for learning, research, and work. To help better facilitate these use cases, we’ve augmented le Chat’s training knowledge with internet search.

Here’s one of our marketing teammates using it to assess the AI market for healthcare.

With state of the art language models that have access to the latest knowledge and happenings, you have a powerful tool to level up your work.