open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
Why it matters
Voxtral ships speech understanding under Apache 2.0 at 24B and 3B, with a transcribe-optimized Mini variant served through the API. That gives developers open weightsA model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.Full definition → for local or edge ASR rather than a proprietary-only choice.
