Multilingual AI

.Mistral AI unveiled a new suite of models, including a large‑scale, open‑weight multilingual multimodal model (Mistral 3) aimed at agentic tasks and positioned against GPT‑4‑Turbo and Gemini‑1.5, and a lightweight edge model (Ministral 3) that runs on a single GPU for robotics, drones and on‑device translation. Backed by a €1.7 billion funding round—led by ASML, Nvidia, Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz—the French startup, now valued at €11.7 billion, has secured enterprise deals with HSBC and other sectors, pursuing a dual strategy of high‑performance research and efficient edge AI.

iFlytek’s Spark Large Model (X1) now supports 130+ languages, outperforming GPT-4.1 in key languages, according to iFlytek. Its voice model excels in speech recognition (100 languages) and synthesis (55 languages), surpassing Whisper V3. Future development focuses on multimodal data fusion, native multilingual speech models, and cross-language knowledge transfer. iFlytek supports 120 million devices for companies like Huawei, BYD, and Haier in 23 languages, aiding global expansion. The company provides 813 AI interfaces, including 272 for multilingual applications, to 530,000 developers worldwide.