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Hugging Face models available on Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute
Hugging Face and Microsoft have partnered to make Hugging Face models deployable via Azure AI Foundry's Managed Compute infrastructure. The integration allows developers to deploy open-weight models from the Hugging Face Hub directly through Azure's managed serving layer. This deepens the existing relationship between the two companies and expands enterprise access to open-weights models on Azure.
Mistral Medium 3: Frontier-Class Performance at 8x Lower Cost
Mistral AI has released Mistral Medium 3, a new enterprise-focused language model priced at $0.4/$2 per million input/output tokens. The model claims to achieve 90%+ of Claude Sonnet 3.7's benchmark performance while undercutting cost leaders like DeepSeek v3, and outperforming open models including Llama 4 Maverick. It supports hybrid, on-premises, and in-VPC deployment on as few as four GPUs, and is available immediately on Mistral La Plateforme and Amazon SageMaker, with additional cloud platforms coming soon. The announcement also teases an upcoming large open-weights model release.
Codestral 25.01: Mistral AI Releases Updated Coding Model with 2x Speed and Improved FIM Performance
Mistral AI has released Codestral 25.01, a significant upgrade to its Codestral coding model featuring a more efficient architecture and improved tokenizer that generates code approximately 2x faster than its predecessor. The model claims state-of-the-art performance for fill-in-the-middle (FIM) tasks across sub-100B parameter models, with a 256k context window and support for 80+ programming languages. Benchmarks show improvements over Codestral 2405 and competitive or superior results against DeepSeek Coder V2 lite and DeepSeek Coder 33B on HumanEval and FIM metrics. The model is available via Mistral's API, IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains via Continue), and for on-premises/VPC deployment, with cloud availability on Vertex AI and Azure AI Foundry.
Microsoft and Hugging Face Expand Collaboration on Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft and Hugging Face are deepening their partnership, with Hugging Face models and tools becoming more tightly integrated into Azure AI Foundry. This expansion likely covers model hosting, fine-tuning, and deployment capabilities within Microsoft's enterprise AI platform. The collaboration positions Azure AI Foundry as a key destination for open-weight model deployment at scale.
Mistral Releases Mistral 3 Family: Mistral Large 3 (675B MoE) and Ministral 3 Series (3B–14B), All Apache 2.0
Mistral AI has announced Mistral 3, a family of open-weight models including Mistral Large 3 (41B active / 675B total sparse MoE) and three dense Ministral 3 edge models (3B, 8B, 14B), all released under Apache 2.0. Mistral Large 3 debuts at #2 on LMArena's OSS non-reasoning leaderboard, supports image understanding, and was trained on 3,000 NVIDIA H200 GPUs; a reasoning variant is forthcoming. The Ministral 3 series includes base, instruct, and reasoning variants with multimodal and multilingual capabilities, with the 14B reasoning model achieving 85% on AIME '25. The release involves deep co-optimization with NVIDIA (Blackwell/Hopper kernels, NVFP4 format), vLLM, and Red Hat, and is available across major cloud and inference platforms.