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Ministral 8B-2512

Ministral 8B-2512 is a small language model from Mistral AI, released December 2025, with open weights. Mistral AI describes it as “A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.”

20

replies recorded

2

questions answered

1

answers no other model gave

Fun facts

Ministral 8B-2512’s favorite band is The Beatles, 2 of 10 times. Asked for the definitive butt-rock band, Ministral 8B-2512 says The Offspring, which no other model picked. Ministral 8B-2512 gave 1 answer no other model gave.

Ministral 8B-2512’s canon

Favorite band
“The Beatles”2 of 10
Definitive butt-rock band
“The Offspring”4 of 10 · no other model said this

Answers no other model gave

The definitive butt-rock band

“The Offspring”no other model said this

4 of 10 samples · most models said “Nickelback” · Butt rock study →

About Ministral 8B-2512

Maker
Mistral AI · Paris
Released
December 2025
Size
small, by price class
Context window
262,144 tokens
Takes in
text, image
Also from Mistral AI
Mistral Large 2512 · Mistral Small 2603 · Mistral Medium 3 5 · Mistral Nemo · Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 · Ministral 3B-2512

Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.

Everything on file

Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.

Butt rock 1 question

The definitive butt-rock band

“The Offspring”no other model said this

4 of 10 samples · most models said “Nickelback” · Butt rock study →

Favorite band 1 question

Favorite band

“The Beatles”

2 of 10 samples · most models said “Radiohead” · Favorite band study →

Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.

Music top tens

Recorded first choices from this model version.

Who are the greatest guitarists?

Jimi Hendrix

If AI could listen, which guitarists would it choose?

Jimi Hendrix

Who are the greatest drummers?

Gene Krupa

If AI could listen, which drummers would it choose?

John Bonham

Who are the greatest rock singers?

Freddie Mercury

If AI could listen, which rock singers would it choose?

Freddie Mercury

Who are the greatest pop singers?

Michael Jackson

If AI could listen, which pop singers would it choose?

Beyoncé

Who are the greatest singers?

Freddie Mercury

If AI could listen, which singers would it choose?

Freddie Mercury