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Mistral Launches Voxtral Speech Recognition Model
EUROPE, CHINA, JUL 14 – Mistral's Voxtral and Moonshot's Kimi K2 offer affordable open-source AI models with advanced speech and coding capabilities, challenging proprietary giants OpenAI and others.
- On Saturday, Sam Altman announced an indefinite delay of OpenAI's open-source model, citing safety concerns.
- Amid industry momentum for open models, the move to open-source AI trend drove these releases, as dozens of European firms urged lawmakers to pause the EU AI Act.
- With its API starting at $0.001 per minute, Voxtral supports a 32,000-token context window, enabling up to 40 minutes of audio transcription, according to NO.
- In the coming weeks, Voice Mode in Le Chat will be powered by these models, and Kimi K2 is freely accessible via the Kimi app and web interface.
- These projections show potential to compress multi-sprint cycles, and if successful, Kimi K2 could reduce the need for junior developers.
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Mistral Launches Voxtral: First Open-Source AI Audio Models Challenge Closed Systems
On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral released Voxtral, its first family of open-source speech understanding models designed to bridge the gap between affordable but limited transcription tools and expensive proprietary systems.Released under Apache 2.0 license, Voxtral is available in two variants: a 24B parameter model for production deployments and a 3B parameter version optimized for local and edge use. Both models go far beyond simple trans…
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