`Mistral Medium 3.5 128B` Launches as a Unified Flagship Model

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is presented as a new flagship dense model that unifies instruct, reasoning, coding, and vision in one model, with a 256k context window and configurable reasoning_effort. For indie developers, the biggest takeaways are the broad capability coverage and the Modified MIT License, which appears friendly to commercial use for smaller teams but includes exceptions for high-revenue companies.

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Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is described as a dense 128B flagship model replacing Mistral Medium 3.1, Magistral, and Devstral 2 in prior product slots.
The model combines text and image input, function calling, JSON output, multilingual support, and a 256k context window in one package.
reasoning_effort can be set per request, letting indie developers trade off speed versus stronger reasoning for coding or agent workflows.
The Modified MIT License is a practical point for indies: commercial use seems allowed, but larger-revenue companies may face extra restrictions.

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`Mistral Medium 3.5 128B` Launches as a Unified Flagship Model

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