AZ536937 - Public Preview: Mistral Large 3 in Foundry

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Published

Dec 4, 2025

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • December 2025
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Product

Microsoft Foundry

Tag

Features

Category

AI + machine learning

Description

Mistral Large 3, a frontier-class open-weight model with Apache 2.0 licensing, is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure. This model delivers enterprise-grade reliability, long-context comprehension, and multimodal reasoning—making it ideal for production assistants, retrieval-augmented applications, agentic systems, and multimodal workflows.

Key Capabilities:

  • Highly reliable instruction following
  • Extended context support for long documents and multi-turn conversations
  • Strong multimodal reasoning (text, images, diagrams)
  • Stable, predictable performance for enterprise workloads
  • Fully open and exportable for hybrid or on-premises deployment

Why it matters:
Mistral Large 3 sets a new benchmark for open models, combining frontier-level capability, reproducible results, and worldwide availability without regional restrictions. Organizations can fine-tune, customize, and deploy the model across cloud, edge, or sovereign environments with no attribution requirements.

Pricing:

  • Input: $0.50 per 1M tokens
  • Output: $1.50 per 1M tokens
  • Deployment: Global Standard (West US 3)