Try Voxtral with an API call: https://
console.mistral.ai, try it on Le Chat: http://
chat.mistral.ai, or download them on Hugging Face: https://
huggingface.co/mistralai.
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Mistral launches Voxtral model with API and Hugging Face access
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Voxtral outperforms Whisper and proprietary speech transcription models
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Voxtral comprehensively outperforms Whisper large-v3, the current leading open-source Speech Transcription model, in speech transcription. It beats GPT-4o mini Transcribe and Gemini 2.5 Flash across all tasks, and achieves state-of-the-art results on English short-form and
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World’s Best Open Speech Recognition Models Unveiled
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Introducing the world's best (and open) speech recognition models!
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Open Source Impact: From VS Code to Billion-Dollar AI Startups
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With all the saga around @windsurf_ai over the last 72 hours, it’s worth looking back to 2015, when VS Code was launched and open-sourced. The decision to open source ultimately led to at least 2 startups valued at $12bn+ in total. There are many stories to be told: pivots,
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LFM2-1.2B-Pirate: New Open-Source Language Model
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Notebook: https://
colab.research.google.com/drive/155lr5-u
YsOJmZfO6_QZPjbs8hA_v8S7t?usp=sharing
… LFM2-1.2B-Pirate: https://
huggingface.co/mlabonne/LFM2-
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Fine-tuning LFM2 Models with Axolotl Framework
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You can now fine-tune LFM2 with @axolotl_ai
! Thanks to @winglian for this! You can use his notebook to smoothly SFT an LFM2 model. I tried it and created my own LFM2-1.2B-Pirate based on this code. -
Open-Source Frontier Model Reaches 185 Tokens Per Second
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We officially have a near-frontier open-source model running on @GroqInc at 185 tok/s.
— Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) 15 juillet 2025
It’s only going to get faster from here.
This is going to open up a lot of opportunities. https://t.co/P8Cs1SQgCg pic.twitter.com/PwBhDjQdEzWe officially have a near-frontier open-source model running on @GroqInc at 185 tok/s. It’s only going to get faster from here. This is going to open up a lot of opportunities.
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Small AI Models vs Frontier Large Models from US
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There are lots of very good small models being released out of the US (Phi, Gemma) but those are not frontier large models.
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US Exits Open Source LLM Race, China Dominates
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And with this, the US is mostly out of the frontier open source large LLM race. Europe has one contender, otherwise it is all China now. (OpenAI is going to release an open LLM soon, but no commitment yet to that being an ongoing effort).
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Open Source Software Value Beyond IP Laws
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@ctjlewis you locked down replies mid-thread, which means I now can't reply to you, so I have to QT-reply. Open source software I create has a *lot* of value to me, *and* to others. It's definitely not the case that I require IP laws to make my work valuable to either audience.