Mistral AI—Released frontier AI models under Apache 2.0 open source license
Mistral AI consistently released major models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, including Mistral 7B (September 2023), the entire Mistral 3 family (December 2025), Magistral Small reasoning model (June 2025), and Devstral Small 2 (December 2025). The company stated this approach is 'about empowering the developer community and putting AI in people's hands,' promoting transparency and allowing users to examine algorithms to ensure ethical practices and minimize bias.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.885 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
Released Mistral 7B and Mistral 3 family under Apache 2.0 license
Mistral AI released Mistral 7B in September 2023 and the entire Mistral 3 family in December 2025 under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. The company stated that 'Open sourcing our models is about empowering the developer community and really putting AI in people's hands, allowing them to own their AI future.'