Mistral AI releases Timestral, an open-weight time-series foundation model family for zero-shot forecasting

Model release Provisional 86% confidence first seen 19 October 2026, 01:18

Mistral AI announced and released Timestral, its first time-series foundation model family for zero-shot forecasting. The offering includes multiple model families, with a reported 209M checkpoint capable of one-day-ahead forecasting from several weeks of 15-minute history in about 140 ms on standard CPUs, and it is provided with inference code for probabilistic multivariate quantile forecasts.