Mistral closes the gap
However, Brian Jackson, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, doesn’t view the API as a groundbreaking product.
“Mistral’s new Agents API is best read as a parity play and not a market-shifting release,” Jackson said. “It puts them in line with OpenAI’s Assistants, Google’s Gemini Agents, and Anthropic’s Claude tools, which offer persistent memory, tool-calling hooks, and structured output, all of which are now table stakes in the space. It closes a feature gap for those already betting on Mistral’s models, but it doesn’t introduce functionality that the market hasn’t already seen.
This interesting part of the announcement, Jackson noted, was the MCP support.
