France’s Mistral unveils its first ‘reasoning’ AI model

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral on Tuesday announced a so-called “reasoning” model it said was capable of working through complex problems, following in the footsteps of top US developers.

Available immediately on the company’s platforms as well as the AI platform Hugging Face, the Magistral “is designed to think things through — in ways familiar to us,” Mistral said in a blog post.

The AI was designed for “general purpose use requiring longer thought processing and better accuracy” than its previous generations of large language models…