Microsoft-backed Mistral unveils multilingual reasoning model to rival OpenAI, DeepSeek

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral is launching a new reasoning model designed to compete with leading systems from OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek, CEO Arthur Mensch announced Tuesday at London Tech Week.

“We’re announcing in a couple of hours our new reasoning model, which is very much competitive with all the others and has the specificity of being able to reason in multiple languages,” Mensch told CNBC during a fireside chat at the event.

Dubbed Magistral, the model is designed to handle complex tasks using a step-by-step logical…