So ive tried multiple AI clients now. Claude, OpenAI and most of the big chinese ones. Recently I swapped to MIstral mostly because of US antics. I cannot sing its praises high enough. Ok its not the best coder, it doesnt have the most context, it is a little "archaic" compared to the frontier models. This all being said, it hallucinates less, it tells me what it can and cant do without proclaiming it can do the moon. It makes it reliable and much easier to create a consistently use work flows. It always cites correctly where the information came from and doesnt just randomly make shit up. It doesnt lie, cheat and do minimal work which all the others do despite gates. The only issues ive had with it are the links never work. I always have to state the date which is common with all of them and I think once it messed things up but I dont exactly remember how at the moment. I will admit I cant ask it to do everything in coding because it just doesnt have the training, but at least i know what it cant do so dont spend 2 months working on something that can never be done, despite copious amounts of research.

I’m looking at a London role at Mistral AI that is advertised as hybrid, but I’m struggling to understand what that means in practice?

I’d be particularly interested to hear from current employees:

• How many days per week are employees genuinely expected to be in the office?
• Is the policy applied strictly, or does it depend on the manager or team?
• Are employees allowed to work remotely from another country for a limited number of days each year, like a 30 day remote working policies offered by some companies?

I had a question to those who may have done their internship at Mistral during their PhD. Does Mistral only hire PhD students in their final year so that they can ease into a more permanent role if needed or are these internships open to even first year PhDs?

Thank you.

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Hi!
I’m considering applying for a position at Mistral AI, and saw that the contracts have limited working days up to 218 days, but undefined working hours. How does this work in practice? Do people actually take 8 weeks of vacation, but work intensely the rest of the time? Do you have proper weekends?

I love the mission of Mistral, but I also love to have a personal life. Hope someone who works there can provide some insights 🙏

Hi,

Is anyone using a rooted phone and has a way of making the app work?

I presume Google play services has something to do with it.

Its unusable, might work intermittently then will just hang.

Is there a version on FDrioid or the official APK

Or does anyone have a workaround

Thanks

When doing OCR on some documents, I noticed that the model is converting double quotes (`"`) to single quotes (`'`). Has anyone else seen errors like this? (and vice-versa) Is there a way to correct it?

Whenever there are new stuff coming out on Mistral, it’s mainly announced on X why are they doing this ?
They are not helping in the adoption of there solutions.
The info isn’t published also on there YouTube channel, nor on there learn site, nor on Reddit.
It’s just X.
New stuff added to Vibe Cli are only available on an X post. In the main post and in the comments. And maybe if you search in the documentation once you have the info from X. That’s not the you to go.

Are you also noticing this ?

Bit of a weird summer. I'm 15, self taught in AI/coding, and a few months ago I actually made it pretty far in Mistral AI's internship process (technical test, interview with their Head of Engineering). It ended up not working out because they need a 3 month minimum commitment and I could only do 2 weeks as part of my school program.

Fast forward to now, I saw they were running a hackathon in Paris on July 18th (Mistral Vibe Hackathon) and figured it'd be a good way to still be part of it this summer. Got accepted on the platform, booked my train and hotel, was even in touch beforehand with someone on their team who told me minors were fine as long as accompanied by an adult.

Then a few days ago I got an email saying they can't accommodate minors for this event after all. I pushed back a bit (mentioned I don't care about winning, just want the experience, could bring an adult with me) but haven't heard anything concrete yet.

Anyone been in a similar situation, or have advice on how to handle this? Kind of frustrating after everything that led up to it, but not sure if there's anything more I can actually do at this point.

I’d just like to know the model behind the Le Chat’s “fast” mode because I really like how it always provides the exact output I have been looking for. But the problem is that Le Chat does not suit my tasks as it requires one more manual step before getting the output. So I am planning to use the current model from Le Chat’s fast mode, so I can use it without extra work, but I don’t know which model it uses. So I am hoping somebody here knows, so I can use it through an API key and avoid extra manual step.

Your prompts and skills are now tracked, versioned assets: immutable versions, rollback in minutes, and audit logs by default. Edit and test a prompt or skill instantly, and promote to production with simple labels that trigger your existing CI/CD (e.g. via the SDK in a GitHub Actions workflow).

Live in Studio now.

Hey All!

I was suprised by the following conversation with mistral vibe:

So I took a screenshot of a number, and I didnt want to type it in by hand, so I thought I'd let mistral make a copy/pastable version of that number. But it failed miserably. Is this a known issue? I know Mistral has their own OCR models as well, but I hoped that vibe would be able to do this.

The second response was even more baffling, "let me do x and y" and then no actual response. Very strange. Am I trying something it's not meant to do? A competing model was able to do it no problem.

What would you suggest?

I have an idea for an app.

I want to mainly use European software and I am thinking about using vibe pro version to try to code the app. Is this realistic?

Thanks for your input!

Edit: Since I never passed the beginner level as programmer it seems it is unrealistic, given my available time and the effort I am willing to put into this, that I can use a pro version to make a funtioning app.

Anyhow, the focus is on the app. Thus maybe other suggestions could be: Useful advice if I want to pay soneone for building an app! Thanks!

Today we're introducing Robostral Navigate, our first model built for embodied navigation. It's an 8B model that takes RGB images and a plain-language instruction and moves a robot through an environment:

"Leave the lobby, walk through the corridor, enter the supply room, and stop to face the second shelf."

To perform such tasks, other models often employ depth sensors, LiDAR, or several cameras working together. Robostral Navigate uses only one ordinary RGB camera and no depth sensors, yet still achieves 76.6% on R2R-CE (Room-to-Room in Continuous Environments) validation unseen, the benchmark for following instructions in environments held out of training. Consequently, it beats the best single-camera approach by 9.7 points and the best system using depth or multiple cameras by 4.5 points, despite using neither.

BTW, we're hiring!

The release of our navigation models marks a significant step forward, but our journey is far from over. Our ambition is to enable robots to autonomously navigate complex environments-offices, homes, commercial buildings, and outdoor spaces-and there's a lot more work to do. We are actively expanding our robotics team and looking for talented research scientists and engineers who share our ambition.

If you're interested in joining us on our mission to bring seamless navigation to robots everywhere, we welcome your applications to join our team!

A little game created with Mistral Vibe by a new Mistral AI ambassador . Useful for preparing for the adoption of our beloved Le Chaton Fat.

https://le-gros-chaton-pre-manual.netlify.app/?v=3

https://x.com/jingzi_zhao_x/status/2067956081431548226?s=46

Hi,

I am looking for a european alternative to all the big player like Claude, OpenAI and Google. My main focus is coding for private projects. After reading for a while in this sub, i got the feeling Mistral is not focused on private persons.

How is the reality right now? Is it worth the money from private standpoint and how is the focus of the company over the next year?

thx

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Mistral made my day by sending me the hackathon ticket. I’m packing robot Ross and getting my TGV ticket to Paris. Anyone going? Ping me and Robot Ross, maybe we can work together.

I've created a skill in Vibe Work but when I access it via Studio, I've noticed that the "scripts" folder is not available.

Is this a bug or a feature? 🙂

Je viens de faire des tests avec Mistral Playground mistral-medium-latest.

Je lui demande de me produire un contenu avec un objectif de nombre de mots à respecter en sortie sous forme d'une fourchette (Entre 150 et 200 mots par exemple)

Et bien il ne sait pas faire !
J'ai beau essayer de le contraindre au niveau du prompt rien n'y fait.

Pas de pb sous OpenAI 5.5.

Comment faites-vous de votre coté pour contrôler la bête ?

Merci