# Ministral 3 3B instruct model published in BF16 precision

> Mistral AI published the BF16-precision variant of its Ministral-3-3B instruction-tuned model on Hugging Face under Apache-2.0. The repo tags show multi-language support (including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic) and links to the accompanying paper (arxiv:2601.08584). No capability or benchmark claims are asserted in the source.

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|---|---|
| **Tool** | Mistral AI |
| **Version** | — |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2025-10-31 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 1/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | model-support |

> **Note:** this classification is below our confidence threshold and is pending human review.

## What changed


- Model architecture: mistral3
- Precision: BF16 (safetensors)
- License: Apache-2.0
- Languages: en, fr, es, de, it, pt, nl, zh, ja, ko, ar
- Paper: arxiv:2601.08584
- Base model: mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Base-2512 (finetuned)


## Sources

- [hf_model](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16) — retrieved 2026-08-11


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