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llm-mistral 0.16

Simon Willison ships llm-mistral 0.16: plugin-style model switching for Claude and Gemini inside your terminal.

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Why it matters

A practitioner tool for managing multiple LLM APIs in a unified CLI. New version adds Mistral model support and likely improves plugin architecture — useful if you're testing models or building multi-model workflows locally, but narrow operational scope.

The key facts

9 to know
  1. llm-mistral 0.16 released on Simon Willison's blog

  2. Plugin adds Mistral model access to llm CLI

  3. Integrates with existing Claude/Gemini support in llm ecosystem

  4. Source: simonwillison.net — Willison is an independent developer/writer, not official Mistral release

  5. llm-mistral plugin version 0.16 released

  6. Simon Willison (Datasette creator) maintains the tool

  7. Integrates with Mistral API and open-weight model releases

  8. No breaking changes or major feature additions disclosed

  9. Timing suggests alignment with mistral-large-4-trillion-parameter open-weight release

Go to the source

Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net

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