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While the AI market has seemed in recent days Deepseek and OpenaiThere are of course many other brilliant engineering teams fueling large language models (LLM) that are worth seeing because users and businesses are looking to use the most recent and older.
Take Mistral aithe French startup which made the headlines before its launch with a record Bound for financing seeds of $ 640 millionAnd who has quietly trained and published a mixture of open source models and owners for consumers and businesses.
Even if the rise of new reasoning models and agents dominated the AI landscape, Mistral is still positioned as a viable alternative to the signing of Openai signature chatbot and the successful mobile application of Deepseek, In particular for those concerned by confidentiality and data security.
Today, Mistral has finally launched its own free mobile version of its Chatbot the cat for iOS and Androidas well as a new level of business for private infrastructure, and a professional plan at $ 14.99 per month. This decision suggests that Mistral IA makes a concerted push to convince companies that there are interesting alternatives to Deepseek and Openai.
The cat Le Chat de Mistral offers business leaders an AI tool that fits into business environments, works with high -speed performance and – especially for certain customers – does not send user data in China ,, Unlike Deepseek.
Mistral targets consumers and businesses with new wise versions
The latest deployment of Mistral AI arrives at a time when companies are increasingly assessing AI partners according to data confidentiality, security and deployment flexibility.
The launch of the Enterprise level of Le Chat, which allows companies to deploy the assistant on private infrastructure, the SaaS or the virtual private cloud (VPC), suggests that Mistral targets the same business users who may already have envisaged the OPENAI GPT-4 or the Claude d’Anthropic, but want more control over their data and models.
Mistral’s strategy reflects a recent DEEPSEEK decision, the Chinese IA company which has published Deepseek-R1, a powerful reasoning model that offers capacities and performance similar to the series of “O” models of OPENAI (O1 , O1-Mini and O3-Mini Out now, with O3 complete soon to follow) but to a fraction of the lost (30 times cheaper for users of the company that Openai O1).
However, the expansion of Deepseek was satisfied in the West with confidentiality and security problems linked to China data and censorship laws. Some analysts have raised questions about the question of whether AI models developed by Chinese companies could be subject to regulations for access to Beijing data, which prompted businesses to proceed with caution during integration of these systems.
For companies concerned with the place where their AI models process and store data, Le Cat’s non -Chinese infrastructure could be a key sales argument. Unlike Deepseek, which operates in a Chinese legal framework, Mistral AI is a European company based in France, subject to the laws on the confidentiality of EU data (GDPR) rather than Chinese law in matters of cybersecurity or the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPL).
Mistral Ia bet that the performance benefits of Le Chat will also help him stand out.
The mobile application is fueled by the latest company Latence AI models, which says Mittral, allow “flash responses” – a functionality that generates responses to speeds up to 1,000 words per second.
Beyond speed, the cat is differentiated by integrating web research in real time and supply from platforms of journalistic networks and social media, allowing responses based on facts rather than relying solely on Pre-formulated knowledge.
This makes the cat a potential alternative for companies that require more up -to -date information based on evidence rather than static model training data.
For companies, the cat also includes:
- Code interpreter: Allows on -site execution of scripts, scientific calculations and data visualization.
- OCR and processing of documents: Recognition of industrial quality optical characters (OCR) for PDFs, calculation sheets and even complex or low quality images.
- Generation of images: Powered by Black Forest Labs’ Ultra flow, allowing the creation of photorealist content.
Sbulting Openai and Anthropic on the price
Mistral IA also adopts a different approach to prices compared to competitors.
While Optai invoices $ 20 per month for Chatgpt Plus and Claude d’Anthropic has variable prices depending on the token limits, the Pro Plan of Le Cat starts at $ 14.99 per month.
In addition, most features – including the latest models, documents downloads and even the generation of images – are free, with limits only for power users.
For companies that plan to adopt the team level, the chat team provides priority support, unified billing and integration credits, while business deployments allow companies Use their own personalized AI models adapted to the needs of their organization.
Quick practical comparison
I have downloaded and tested the iOS the Mistral cat app on my iPhone briefly by writing and modifying this piece, and compared some of my guests to my assistant AI by default, the Openai chatpt propelled by GPT-4O.
The cat was generally appreciably faster in its outings than Chatgpt, but its capacities of generation of ultra model black forest images were not surprisingly as adherent to my invite as the integrated connection of chatgpt to Openai Openai image modelwho is now 5 months old and barely at the cutting edge of technology.
In addition, the connectivity of OpenAi to research on the web has provided a greater diversity of sources than the cat, which was lacking to AFP, a media of French publication but in English and a wire service that mistral In partnership with Bath in January 2025.
See some of my cat and chatgpt comparisons below.
The cat:
Chatgpt:
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AI competition continues to intensify
The launch of Le Chat highlights a broader change in industry: while Openai and Anthropic remain dominant players, companies actively assess alternative AI providers that offer better prices, more flexible deployment options and guarantees confidentiality of clearer data.
With Deepseek confronted with a meticulous examination on its links of Chinese data and OpenAi dealing with challenges being adopted by companies, European positioning of AI, rapid performance and competitive AI prices could make it a choice of More and more attractive for companies that seek to integrate AI assistants into their workflows.
For companies that weigh their IA options, the last iteration of the cat Le Cat is a signal according to which non -American and non -Chinese viable alternatives are starting to emerge – and it is clear that Mistral IA intends to be to be the avant-garde of this change.
