Mistral's updated Magistral Small 1.2 reasoning model can analyze images and fit on a Macbook

The company said on X that its new Magistral Small 1.2 and Magistral Medium 1.2 LLMs are "minor" updates to its Magistral 1.1 series. 

But the updates may actually be more significant than this well-funded European AI darling is letting on: both models are equipped with a vision encoder, allowing them to analyze imagery submitted by users. And they both offer performance improvements on key benchmarks, as well as enhanced usability features.