Mistral AI has announced Voxtral, its debut audio-native language model family targeting speech recognition, multilingual transcription, and audio comprehension. Available in two sizes via Mistral's La Plateforme API, it extends the company's portfolio decisively into multimodal AI. The release positions Mistral as a full-stack AI provider capable of handling voice and audio alongside its established text and code capabilities.
Cohere has announced "Cohere Transcribe," a new state-of-the-art open-source speech recognition model. Designed to deliver highly accurate and efficient speech-to-text capabilities, it represents Cohere's expansion into open-source audio AI. The model aims to challenge existing industry benchmarks like OpenAI's Whisper by offering superior multilingual performance.