Comment by simonw

I'm excited about this one - they seem to be directly targeting the "best model to run on a decent laptop" category, hence the comparison with Llama 3.3 70B and Qwen 2.5 32B.

I'm running it on a M2 64GB MacBook Pro now via Ollama and it's fast and appears to be very capable. This downloads 14GB of model weights:

  ollama run mistral-small:24b

Then using my https://llm.datasette.io/ tool (so I can log my prompts to SQLite):

  llm install llm-ollama
  llm -m mistral-small:24b "say hi"

More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/30/mistral-small-3/