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Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & what's next for Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample

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Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, an open-weights text-to-speech model that rivals ElevenLabs in performance while being significantly more efficient. This 4B parameter model supports nine languages and utilizes a novel architecture combining auto-regressive semantic token generation with flow-matching for acoustic tokens. The release underscores Mistral's commitment to open research and expanding the frontier of multimodal AI capabilities. AI

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Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & what's next for Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample

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  1. Latent Space Podcast TIER_1 English(EN) · Latent.Space ·

    Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & what's next for Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample

    <p>Mistral has been on an absolute tear - with frequent successful model launches it is easy to forget that they raised <a href="https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai" target="_blank">the largest European AI round in history<…

  2. Latent Space (podcast video) TIER_1 English(EN) · Latent Space ·

    Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample

    Mistral is one of the world's leading frontier model labs, and has just raised $900m to build their European data center hub. Last year marked their first ventures into multimodal models, with Pixtral and then Voxtral in 2025, ending the year with a monster €1.7B fundraise at a €…

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