# Mistral releases Mistral Small 3 under Apache 2.0

> Mistral announced Mistral Small 3, a 24B-parameter model released under Apache 2.0 and positioned for low-latency generative AI tasks. The announcement discussed local deployment suitability and comparative performance claims, which require workload-specific confirmation by adopters against the intended workload and safety policy in local deployment practice.

Canonical: https://hypler.com/ai-news/mistral-small-3-2025
Hypler publication: 2026-10-06
Original source date: 2025-01-30
Publisher: Mistral AI
Article kind: source-briefing
Category: Models
Tags: open-weights, Mistral, local-inference

## Engineering relevance

Smaller permissively licensed models can be useful candidates where control and latency matter. Hypler should still benchmark accuracy, hardware use, update process, and guardrail coverage against the intended task.

## Original source

- [Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-3/)

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