Mistral 7/12 Mistral Large 3: 145B dense flagship with 128K context and Apache-2.0 weight drop

Mistral on 2026-07-12 introduces Mistral Large 3 — a 145B-parameter dense flagship at 128K context with native function-calling + JSON-schema tool-use and a chat-instruct variant. Self-reported figures: MMLU-Pro 79.2, GPQA-Diamond 71.6, HumanEval+ 93.4, MultiPL-E 88.1, MT-Bench v3 9.21, IFEval strict 88.4. License is Apache-2.0 with a Mistral-research addendum; deployment via Mistral La Plateforme + Azure AI Foundry + Bedrock.