After several announcements made as part of the “Summit for AI” which recently held in France, the Chatbot The Cat overshadowed Chatgpt in the top of the downloads.
Would one of the best AI available on the market be French? This is what we could presume by looking at the most downloaded applications of the moment on the AppStore and the Google Play Store. If we find two of the biggest artificial intelligences of the moment with the American Chatgpt and the Chinese Deepseek, it is a French application that we see in first position with the cat.
What is “the cat” by mistral ai?
“The cat” is a chatbot application powered by artificial intelligence like Chatgpt, Gemini or Deepseek. Its particularity, apart from being French, is its response capacity which is up to 10 times more reactive than Chatgpt with nearly 1,100 tokens per second (Tok/s) for “the cat pro” against 85 tokens per second for Openai’s solution.
Note that “the cat” is not, however, free from any defect. We refer you to This excellent comparison of the BDM site which compares several requests sent to Chatgpt and to “the cat” where the latter is mistaken on a few points.
Like other AI solutions, “the cat” presents itself as a simple window of discussion where Internet users can send their requests. Users can interact in multiple languages (French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, etc …) and obtain answers very quickly.
Among the notable features of “the cat”, we find the classic answers to questions, research on the web (with sources links), the generation of images, the creation of files, the automation of certain tasks and the analysis of documents.
How to download the cat?
“Le Chat” is available on the web via a dedicated website that you can find At this address. The chatbot also has a mobile application Available on the AppStore If you have an iPhone and On the Google Play Store If your smartphone is an Android device.
What is Mistral Ai?
Mistral AI is a French company created in 2023 and in particular responsible for “Le Chat”. Mistral AI is directed by three founders: Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, three former French researchers who operated in particular at Google or Meta (Facebook). One of the peculiarities of Mistral AI comes from its many investors like Xavier Niel, the CEO of Free.
If Mistral AI was above all known for its open source IA solutions (understand, open to external developers), the company notably was noted at the “Summit for AI” where it made several announcements and also Cited by Emmanuel Macron as a European response to the most used AI models of the moment. If the US have chatgpt and China has Deepseek, Europe should now count on “the cat” to win on this new market.
What is the price of “the cat”?
The basic use of “the cat” is completely free like chatgpt. Thus, any user can go to the AI site and register by creating an account or using an Apple, Google account, etc …
Like the majority of AI fashionable solutions, “Le Chat” has a pro subscription. The latter allows in particular to carry out image generation, better access to news and web searches as well as dedicated customer support against 14.99 euros per month.
Note that Free subscribers have free access to “Le Chat Pro” for a full year following a partnership with the telephone operator. This offer concerns all mobile subscribers with a free 5G package, free series, 2 euros package and offers via the Veepee site (excluding 4G box).