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What is le Chat and how does it work?

Updated over 2 weeks ago

About le Chat

Le Chat is Mistral AI’s comprehensive and multilingual conversational assistant, packaged in a neat and user-friendly interface and powered by our latest cutting-edge large language models (LLMs).

It is designed to be a helpful, honest, and harmless assistant, and can enhance both your personal and professional life by assisting with a wide range of tasks.

You can, for instance:

  • ask for information and search the web

  • generate impressive images

  • write and debug code

  • summarize and analyze all kinds of documents

  • or simply chat with a friendly AI assistant! 😊

πŸ“Œ You can also communicate with le Chat on the go, as it is available on both iOS and Android.

How to use le Chat

When you begin a conversation, you're engaging with a powerful generative AI model. You can communicate using natural language to ask questions or assign tasks in a conversational manner.

Le Chat automatically selects the appropriate tools when needed, based on your input and the features you have mentioned or enabled (see below for more details).

πŸ”‘ Bear in mind that le Chat does not have prior context about you, your specific task, or your organization outside the present conversation. For the best results, provide very specific instructions about exactly what you’d like it to do and leverage the different capabilities available.

πŸ”Ž For advanced users, employing prompt engineering techniques can significantly enhance the results you receive.

Core capabilities

Beyond its core conversational ability, le Chat can utilize various specialized tools to accomplish tasks, such as:

  • Agents: Create specialized virtual assistants, tailored to your needs, from tone personalization to tool usage, and interact with them directly within le Chat!

  • Canvas: An interface for collaborating with le Chat on writing, data tables and coding projects, allowing for precise focus, direct editing, and quick-action shortcuts.

  • Code Interpreter: For developers and tech-savvy users, this feature allows you to write and safely execute sandboxed Python code directly within le Chat's interface. Perfect for data analysis, visualization, and quick calculations.

  • Connections: Custom connectors that supercharge le Chat by securely linking it to your external data sources (such as your email account or your calendar), providing it with the ability to access and manipulate this information on your behalf.

  • Document Understanding: Upload text documents or PDFs, and le Chat will extract their content so you can ask questions about them in real time.

  • Image Generation: Powered by Black Forest Labs cutting-edge diffusion models, this feature allows you to create stunning visual content based on your natural language instructions.

  • Image Understanding: Upload an image and le Chat will use a vision model to interpret its content, allowing you to ask questions about the image or use it as context for your queries.

  • Libraries: Libraries are your personal, secure knowledge bases that you and your organization can create and access directly within le Chat. Upload different types of documents and begin chatting with them right away!

  • Web Search: When enabled, le Chat can retrieve up-to-date information from the internet (and from trusted sources such as AFP and AP news agencies) to better answer questions on specialized topics or current events, overcoming the knowledge cut-off of its training data.

  • and counting!

A tailored experience for each user

Le Chat is declined in different versions, each with its own features and pricing, fitting the needs of casual users to small businesses, and large enterprises.

πŸ”Ž Alternatively, you may check out the pricing page to learn more about the different versions of le Chat.

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