Introducing Timestral
Mistral releases Timestral, its first family of time-series foundation models in four sizes from 5M to 209M parameters, with the largest ranking first on GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench among pre-trained zero-shot models. Timestral produces probabilistic multivariate forecasts, supports past-only and known-future covariates, and runs on CPU without a GPU. It combines synthetic-first pre-training, covariate-aware attention and decoupled horizon forecasting, and can be fine-tuned on proprietary data through Mistral Forge.
Why it matters: Useful for teams weighing time-series foundation models, since it reports benchmark standings, a size-versus-accuracy trade-off and CPU latency figures alongside the adaptation options.