Le Chat Gets Medium 3.5
In late June, France's Mistral shipped a run of updates as Europe's response to the US-China duo. Mistral Medium 3.5 has entered its own Le Chat and Vibe, used to power a remote coding agent and Le Chat's Work mode, covering the Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans. API pricing, per the official notes, is $1.5 per million input tokens and $7.5 output, positioned as mid-tier value.
OCR 4 Headlines Self-Hosting
More noteworthy for B2B teams is OCR 4. Beyond recognizing text, it also provides bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, claiming support for 170 languages across 10 language families, and it can fit into a single container for fully self-hosted deployment. Its positioning isn't scanned documents for human reading, but the "ingestion" stage of enterprise search, RAG, and industry retrieval pipelines—getting documents cleanly structured in first. Looked at together, this round Mistral didn't chase the flashiest flagship benchmarks, but reinforced stages like coding agents and document processing that "can be deployed and self-hosted." For European and enterprise customers who care about data not leaving the internal network and want to self-host, this orientation often suits their taste better than a leaderboard ranking. The above capabilities and pricing are per Mistral's official release notes.
via: Mistral AI