NexaAI/Ministral-3-3B-npu

Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512

Run Ministral-3-3B on Qualcomm NPU with NexaSDK.

Quickstart

Install nexaSDK and create a free account at sdk.nexa.ai

Activate your device with your access token:

nexa config set license '<access_token>'

Run the model locally in one line:

nexa infer NexaAI/Ministral-3-3B-npu

Model Description

Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 is the instruction-tuned variant of Mistral AI’s smallest Ministral 3 model: a compact multimodal language model combining a ~3.4B-parameter language core with a 0.4B-parameter vision encoder.
It is post-trained in FP8 for instruction-following, making it well-suited for chat-style agents, tool use, and grounded reasoning on both text and images.
With a large 256k context window and efficient edge-oriented design, it targets real-time use on GPUs and other resource-constrained hardware.

Features

• Multimodal (vision + text): Understands and reasons over images alongside text in a single conversation.
• Instruction-tuned: Optimized for following natural-language instructions, chat, and assistant-style workflows.
• Agentic capabilities: Native support for function calling and structured JSON-style outputs for tool and API orchestration.
• Large context window: Up to 256k tokens for long documents, multi-step workflows, and complex sessions.
• Edge-optimized FP8 weights: FP8 checkpoint designed for efficient deployment and serving, including on a single modern GPU.
• Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
• Part of the Ministral 3 family: Seamlessly aligned with 3B/8B/14B base, instruct, and reasoning variants for scalable deployments.

Use Cases

• Vision + language assistants
  • Image captioning and explanation (UI screenshots, photos, diagrams)
  • Multimodal Q&A (e.g., “describe this chart and summarize its implications”)
• Lightweight agents and tools
  • Function-calling workflows (retrieval, calculators, external APIs)
  • JSON-structured responses for downstream automation
• Text understanding & generation
  • Classification, tagging, routing, and extraction from long documents
  • Short-form copywriting, drafting, and rewriting across multiple languages
• Edge & low-resource deployments
  • On-device or near-edge assistants where latency, context length, and cost matter
  • Local/private workloads that benefit from a small yet capable multimodal model

Inputs and Outputs

Inputs

• Text-only prompts
  • Single-turn or multi-turn chat-style conversations (system, user, assistant roles).
  • Long-context inputs up to the model’s context limit (e.g., documents, logs, transcripts).
• Multimodal prompts
  • One or more images (e.g., URLs or image tensors) combined with text.
• Structured tool schemas
  • Function / tool definitions for agentic workflows (JSON schemas describing functions and parameters).

Outputs

• Generated text
  • Answers, explanations, step-by-step reasoning, summaries, and creative content.
• Multimodal-aware responses
  • Text grounded in the provided images (descriptions, comparisons, localized details).
• Structured tool calls
  • JSON-like tool call objects for function execution and programmatic integration.
• Logits / probabilities (advanced)
  • For users accessing the raw model via low-level APIs, token-level scores for custom decoding or research.

License

This repo is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which allows use, sharing, and modification only for non-commercial purposes with proper attribution. All NPU-related models, runtimes, and code in this project are protected under this non-commercial license and cannot be used in any commercial or revenue-generating applications. Commercial licensing or enterprise usage requires a separate agreement. For inquiries, please contact dev@nexa.ai