Mistral Releases Timestral Time-Series Foundation Model Family
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On October 15, 2026, Mistral AI officially announced the release of its first time-series foundation model family, Timestral. The family comes in four parameter sizes: 5M, 28M, 123M and 209M. According to Mistral, the largest 209M-parameter model ranks first among pre-trained zero-shot models on three public benchmarks—GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench—and surpasses the previous SOTA models with roughly two-thirds of the parameters. Apart from the official announcement, there are no third-party evaluations or other follow-up reports yet.
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Mistral has released Timestral, its first family of time series foundation models in four sizes — 5M, 28M, 123M and 209M parameters — with the largest model ranking first among pretrained zero-shot models on the GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench public benchmarks, beating the previous SOTA with about two-thirds the parameters.
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