#1121 - Mistral AI - kicking the tyres of this compelling European LLM

Introduction

So what is it?

From Wikipedia - 

Mistral AI is a premier French AI startup, founded in 2023 and valued over US$14 billion by 2025, that develops high-performance, cost-efficient, and largely open-weight large language models (LLMs). It offers versatile models—including Mistral Large 3 and Codestral—optimized for tasks like text generation, coding, and multilingual reasoning

A European LLM, excellent!

I'm starting with the Experiment for free option -

I get my api key -

and off I go - 

Postman & Mistral AI

Sanity test passed!

OIC & Mistral AI

Now to OIC, here I create a new project and add a REST (invoke) connection -

I also add a REST (trigger) connection -

I create a simple sync integration - 

Input and output are simple strings.

I add the Mistral invoke - 

Here is the full Response structure - 

{
    "id": "33b51594fea144cf8d4669abd35478e9",
    "created": 1772190410,
    "model": "mistral-large-latest",
    "usage": {
        "prompt_tokens": 11,
        "total_tokens": 1137,
        "completion_tokens": 1126,
        "prompt_tokens_details": {
            "cached_tokens": 0
        }
    },
    "object": "chat.completion",
    "choices": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "finish_reason": "stop",
            "message": {
                "role": "assistant",
                "tool_calls": null,
                "content": "somecontent"
            }
        }
    ]
}

I complete the Map actions - first Map - 

                      I complete the Map actions - second Map - 

I activate and run - 

                              Second sanity test passed.

Langflow, Mistral AI and OIC Tools

                     Note how I use the Mistral AI component, to allow the Agent to use this LLM.

 

                                      I just need to specify the Model name and Mistral API Key.

The rest you've already seen in earlier posts, OIC based MCP Tools etc.

Summa Summarum

Mistral AI is simple to use, be it from Postman or as the LLM for your agent in Langflow. What's in a name? Mistral - a strong, cold, dry, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Mediterranean Sea, particularly in winter and spring. Originating from the Occitan word for "master," this wind is known for its force, often reaching over 100 km/h

 Courtesy of Wikipedia.