Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is an open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released on December 2, 2025.
- Developer
- Mistral AI
- Released
- December 2, 2025
- Total parameters
- 675B
- Active parameters per token
- 41B
- Architecture
- MoE
- Context window
- 256K
- Input
- Text, image
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Hugging Face repository
- huggingface.co
- Checked on
Mistral Large 3 is a mixture-of-experts model with 675B total parameters, of which 41B are active for each token. Mistral AI lists a context window of 256K tokens. The model accepts text and image input. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.
- Total parameters, billions
- 675B
- Active parameters, billions
- 41B
- Context window, tokens
- 256K
- License type
- Apache 2.0
- License conditions
- Apache 2.0, with no user or revenue limits.
- Weights precision
- FP8
- Official quantized or alternative versions
- mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512-NVFP4; mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512-BF16 (full precision); mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512-Eagle
- License text
- apache.org
- Sources
Page URL Hugging Face model card https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512/raw/main/README.md mistral.ai announcement https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3
Questions
What license does Mistral Large 3 use?
The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use with no user or revenue limits.
How much memory does Mistral Large 3 need?
Mistral Large 3 has 675B total parameters, and all of them must be loaded. The main weights are published in FP8, with NVFP4 and full-precision BF16 versions also available; the memory calculator checks which setups fit.
How many parameters does Mistral Large 3 have?
675B in total, of which 41B are active for each token, with a context window of 256K tokens.
What input does Mistral Large 3 accept?
Text and image input.
Sources
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