AI Development

Mistral releases Timestral time-series foundation models

October 15, 2026 · Medium importance · model

Mistral released Timestral, its first family of time-series foundation models in four sizes from 5 million to 209 million parameters. The largest model ranks first among pretrained zero-shot systems on GIFT-Eval, TIME, and fev-bench benchmarks. The models support multivariate probabilistic forecasting with covariates, run efficiently on CPU, and are available under a Modified MIT license with accompanying code.

Date
October 15, 2026
Importance
Medium 3/5
Category
model
Axis of Change
Capability Gain
Organizations
Mistral AI
Models Affected
Timestral
  1. 01 mistral.ai