Mistral turns focus toward regional LLMs with Saba release

French AI startup Mistral is turning its focus toward providing large language models (LLMs) that understand regional languages and their parlance as a result of rising demand among its enterprise customers.

“Making AI ubiquitous requires addressing every culture and language. As AI proliferates globally, many of our customers worldwide have expressed a strong desire for models that are not just fluent but native to regional parlance,” the company wrote in a blog post.