French AI darling Mistral just unveiled its Agents API—a plug-and-play solution for building AI agents that can run Python, generate images, and even pretend to understand your corporate documents. 🎭
What’s Actually New?
Mistral promises “agentic orchestration” (buzzword bingo, anyone?) with built-in connectors for:
- Code Execution – Because nothing says trust us like letting an AI run arbitrary Python in your enterprise stack.
- Image Generation – Powered by Black Forest Lab FLUX1.1, because who doesn’t want AI-generated corporate clipart?
- Web Search – Accuracy jumps from abysmal (23%) to merely questionable (75%) when enabled. Progress!
The Catch? It’s All Proprietary Now
Remember when Mistral was the open-source underdog? Yeah, those days are over. Medium 3—the “brains” behind this API—is locked behind Mistral’s paywall. And at $0.4 per million input tokens, you’ll pay dearly for the privilege of watching AI hallucinate answers from your internal docs.
Who’s This For? (Besides VC-Backed Suckers)
- Lead AI Engineers who enjoy explaining to their CFO why their AI just billed them $30k for 1,000 web searches.
- Enterprise Teams desperate to slap AI-powered on their roadmap without building anything from scratch. Mistral’s betting big on enterprises swallowing yet another proprietary AI platform. Will it work? Maybe. But if you’re hoping for transparency, keep walking. 🚶♂️