Mistral Small 3.2 is a minor update to the Mistral Small 3.1 model, offering improvements in instruction following, repetition errors, and function calling. The article details the author's experience running the model locally using Ollama and GGUF quantizations, including generating an SVG image and describing it with the model itself.
A summary of a workshop presented at PyCon US on building software with LLMs, covering setup, prompting, building tools (text-to-SQL, structured data extraction, semantic search/RAG), tool usage, and security considerations like prompt injection. It also discusses the current LLM landscape, including models from OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, and open-weight alternatives.
