Pixtral 12B

About Pixtral 12B

Pixtral 12B is Mistral AI's multimodal model, combining strong language capability with native vision understanding. With 12 billion parameters, it processes both text and images, enabling applications that require visual comprehension alongside language generation. Pixtral excels at image description, visual question answering, document understanding, and tasks combining visual and textual reasoning. The model features efficient architecture that enables practical deployment while maintaining strong performance on both vision and language benchmarks. Pixtral 12B is available as open weights, enabling self-hosting and customization for specific visual domains. It's particularly valuable for document processing, content moderation, and applications requiring image analysis without separate vision models. For developers building multimodal applications with European AI provider benefits, Pixtral 12B offers capable vision-language AI in an accessible package. It represents Mistral's expansion into multimodal AI while maintaining their commitment to open and efficient models.

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Get started with Pixtral 12B API

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/pixtral-12b",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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