Mistral OCR, a new Optical Character Recognition API, unlocks the collective intelligence of digitized information by accurately understanding documents. The API, available on the developer suite la Plateforme, is ideal for multimodal document understanding and is priced at 1000 pages per dollar.
From website main features:
- State of the art understanding of complex documents
- Natively multilingual and multimodal
- Top-tier benchmarks
- Fastest in its category
- Doc-as-prompt, structured output
- Selectively available to self-host for organizations dealing with highly sensitive or classified information
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr
MCP – Model Context Protocol – solution to problems with LLM communication over different systems, key concepts are:
• Model Context Protocol (MCP): A bridge between LLMs and various APIs, enabling LLMs to interact with tools like Slack, GitHub, and local filesystems.
• MCP Server Functionality: Defines tools for LLMs to invoke, such as “fetch repository” or “comment on PR,” and interacts with APIs on behalf of the LLM.
• Benefits of MCP Integration: Seamless integration with LLMs, eliminating the need for additional glue code and allowing for rapid enhancement of LLM capabilities.
• MCP Components: MCP consists of a client, a server, and a protocol.
• Server Functionality: Communicates with APIs, executes actions on systems, and can be hosted remotely or locally.
• Client Capabilities: Connects to multiple servers, enabling integration of specialized servers for different actions.
Bonus: Windsurf updates