Mistral Small 3: 24 billion parameters, Apache 2.0

Mistral released Small 3, a 24B-parameter model under the Apache 2.0 license, with an emphasis on low-latency language tasks.

• Model quality is one consideration.
• Deployment cost is another.
• License terms are part of the engineering decision too.

Pick the largest model by default.
Start with the task and evaluate what is sufficient.