Model Overview

Description:

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is Mistral AI's first flagship merged model. It is a dense 128B model with a 256k context window, handling instruction-following, reasoning, and coding in a single set of weights. Mistral Medium 3.5 replaces its predecessor Mistral Medium 3.1 and Magistral in Le Chat. It also replaces Devstral 2 in our coding agent Vibe. Concretely, expect better performance for instruct, reasoning and coding tasks in a new unified model in comparison with our previous released models. The NVIDIA Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B NVFP4 model is quantized with Model Optimizer.

This model is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

Third-Party Community Consideration

This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party's requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B Model Card

License/Terms of Use:

GOVERNING TERMS: GOVERNING TERMS: Use of this model is governed by Mistral’s Modified MIT license. To deploy and customize the model in your environment, please contact Mistral[https://mistral.ai/contact/].

Deployment Geography:

Global

Use Case:

Use Case: Designed for advanced chat, coding assistance, reasoning-intensive tasks, multimodal image understanding, and agentic workflows that benefit from function calling, JSON output, and long-context processing.

Release Date:

Hugging Face 07/01/2026 via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B-NVFP4

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Transformer
Network Architecture: Mistral (dense 128B language model with vision encoder)
Total Parameters: 128B

Input:

Input Types: Text, Image
Input Formats: String, Red, Green, Blue (RGB)
Input Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D), Two-Dimensional (2D)
Other Input Properties: Supports multilingual text input in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, plus image input with variable image sizes and aspect ratios.
Input Context Length (ISL): 262,144 (256k)

Output:

Output Types: Text
Output Format: String
Output Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Output Properties: Supports native function calling, JSON output, configurable reasoning effort for quick replies or deeper reasoning runs, and strong system prompt adherence.

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Software Integration:

Runtime Engine(s):

• vLLM

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

• NVIDIA Blackwell

Preferred Operating System(s):

• Linux

The integration of foundation and fine-tuned models into AI systems requires additional testing using use-case-specific data to ensure safe and effective deployment. Following the V-model methodology, iterative testing and validation at both unit and system levels are essential to mitigate risks, meet technical and functional requirements, and ensure compliance with safety and ethical standards before deployment.

Model Version(s):

This model versions is NVFP4 quantized Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B with nvidia-modelopt v0.44.0

Training and Evaluation Datasets:

We calibrated the model using the dataset noted below, and performed evaluation using the benchmarks noted under Evaluation Datasets. We did not perform training or testing for this Model Optimizer release. The methods noted under Training and Testing Datasets below represent the data collection and labeling methods used by the third-party to train and test the underlying model.

Calibration Dataset:

Link: Nemotron-Post-Training-v3 Data Collection Method by dataset: Automated. Labeling Method by dataset: Automated. Properties: Nemotron-Post-Training-v3 is a post-training dataset collection curated by NVIDIA. The calibration blend used for this model sampled from nemotron-sft-instruction-following-chat-v2, nemotron-science-v1, nemotron-competitive-programming-v1, nemotron-sft-agentic-v2, nemotron-math-v2, nemotron-sft-swe-v2, and nemotron-sft-multilingual-v1.

Training Dataset:

Data Modality: Text, Image Data Collection Method by dataset: Undisclosed Labeling Method by dataset: Undisclosed Data Size: Undisclosed Properties: Undisclosed

Evaluation Dataset:

Datasets: MMLU Pro, GPQA Diamond, AA-LCR, SciCode, AIME 2025, IFBench, MMMU Pro Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid, Automated, Human Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid, Automated, Human Properties: We evaluated the model on text-based reasoning, coding, instruction-following, long-context recall, and multimodal benchmarks: MMLU Pro is a multi-task language understanding benchmark with challenging multiple-choice questions across diverse academic domains; GPQA Diamond contains 448 graduate-level multiple-choice questions written by domain experts in biology, physics, and chemistry; AA-LCR evaluates long-context recall; SciCode evaluates scientific coding capabilities; AIME 2025 contains problems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination; IFBench is a benchmark for evaluating instruction-following capabilities across diverse and structured task constraints; MMMU Pro is the more challenging version of the Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding benchmark, measuring college-level multimodal reasoning across diverse disciplines with expanded answer choices and a vision-only input setting.

Inference:

Acceleration Engine: vLLM Test Hardware: NVIDIA B200

Post Training Quantization

This model was obtained by quantizing selected weights and activations of Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B with Model Optimizer, ready for inference with vLLM. MLP linear operators in decoder layers 4 through 86 are quantized to NVFP4, while the MLP linear operators in decoder layers 0 through 3 and 87 remain in FP8. Attention linear operators and the KV cache remain in FP8. This optimization preserves FP8 precision in the model's edge layers and attention path while reducing checkpoint size and GPU memory requirements.

Usage

To serve this checkpoint with vLLM, launch the validated docker image vllm/vllm-openai:v0.21.0 and run the sample command below:

vllm serve nvidia/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B-NVFP4 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --max-model-len 196608 \
  --config-format hf \
  --dtype auto \
  --trust-remote-code

Reasoning effort is configurable per request via reasoning_effort="high" (test-time reasoning). Recommended sampling: temperature=0.7, top_p=0.95.

Evaluation

The accuracy benchmark results are presented in the table below:

Baseline: Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B. Benchmarked with reasoning_effort="high", temperature=0.7, top_p=0.95.

Model Limitations:

The base model was trained on data that contains toxic language and societal biases originally crawled from the internet. Therefore, the model may amplify those biases and return toxic responses especially when prompted with toxic prompts. The model may generate answers that may be inaccurate, omit key information, or include irrelevant or redundant text producing socially unacceptable or undesirable text, even if the prompt itself does not include anything explicitly offensive.

Ethical Considerations

NVIDIA believes Trustworthy AI is a shared responsibility and we have established policies and practices to enable development for a wide array of AI applications. Developers should work with their internal model team to ensure this model meets requirements for the relevant industry and use case and addresses unforeseen product misuse.

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