PARIS, Feb. 28 -- The French start-up Mistral AI has announced the launch of its first AI-powered conversational chatbot. Still limited and accessible only by signing up to a waiting list, Le Chat is nevertheless billed as a French alternative to ChatGPT, the leader in this field.

Le Chat is a multilingual conversational assistant, based on the different language models (Small, Next and Large) developed by Mistral AI. The application is both educational and fun, simple to use and powerful.

In concrete terms, you can ask it practical or general knowledge questions. You can also ask it to summarize or translate an article, write a presentation or podcast, and so on.

On the other hand, it cannot (yet) source information from the internet ...