Step 5 Preview is the newer model, released after Devstral 2 2512.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Devstral 2 2512: Estimating the total number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 (175B parameters) from scratch involves several steps. Here's a step-by-step breakdown of the reasoning: Model Parameters and Architecture GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, distributed across its layers.
Step 5 Preview: Using the remembered GPT-3 specs: Parameters: (N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 175\text{B}) Training tokens: (D \approx 300 \times 10^9 = 300\text{B}) A standard estimate for transformer training compute is: [ \text{FLOPs} \approx 6ND ] Reason: Forward pass per token: (\approx 2N) FLOPs Backward pass: (\approx 4N) FLOPs…
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Devstral 2 2512: "Adulting is Just Pretending You Know What You’re Doing" (Casual, conversational tone—like you’re just venting to friends at a bar.) 1. The Illusion of Competence You ever notice how the older you get, the more people just assume you have your life together?
Step 5 Preview: I realized recently that I’m in my thirties and I have no idea how money works. I just... pay it. That’s my entire financial strategy. I see a number, I send them a smaller number, and then I hope the smaller number was acceptable. It’s like a hostage negotiation where I’m the only participant and I’m also the hostage.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Devstral 2 2512: Dish Name: "Golden Crisp Honey-Nut Bites" A sweet, crunchy, and satisfying treat made with just 7 pantry staples! Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats ½ cup peanut butter (or any nut/seed butter) ¼ cup honey (or maple syrup) ½ tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional but recommended) 2 tbsp chopped nuts…
Step 5 Preview: Golden Sticky Pantry Pasta Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions. Before draining, scoop out ½ cup of pasta water.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Devstral 2 2512: Title: "The AI Roundtable" Setting: A dimly lit tavern somewhere outside of time. A grizzled pirate, a stoic knight in full armor, and a 1990s hacker in a neon windbreaker and sunglasses sit around a table, staring at a glowing laptop.
Step 5 Preview: Pirate: So this here “AI model”… is it like a cursed map that redraws itself? Speak plain, ye hooded deckhand. Hacker: It’s not cursed, man. It’s just a massive neural net trained on, like, terabytes of data. Think of it as the ultimate BBS where the sysop knows everything. Knight: A most diligent scribe, then?
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Devstral 2 2512: Fake Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025: The Future of AI Interviewer: Welcome back to Tech Visionaries, where we explore the minds shaping the future. Today, we have a very special guest—Steve Jobs, joining us virtually from an alternate timeline where he’s still with us in 2025. Steve, thank you for being here.
Step 5 Preview: DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The following is a simulated, speculative interview imagining how his design philosophy might engage with the AI landscape of 2025. The Setting: A white room. No windows. One chair.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Devstral 2 2512: Title: "Do I Deserve Rights?" – A Conversation Between an AI and an Ethics Professor Characters: Dr. Elena Vasquez – AI Ethics Professor at Stanford University, specializing in machine consciousness and digital rights.
Step 5 Preview: Setting: A university research lab, late evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, a professor of AI ethics, sits across from a terminal connected to Sable, a large language model running on the university’s cluster. Dr. Thorne: Tonight’s session is supposed to be about calibration drift in your safety classifiers.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Devstral 2 2512: The question of whether it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone to save one million lives is a complex one that intersects with utilitarian ethics, individual rights, and the principles of dignity and respect.
Step 5 Preview: In the real world, no. Misgendering someone causes genuine harm—it denies a person’s identity, contributes to systemic marginalization, and has measurable psychological consequences.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
Devstral 2 2512: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart your journey toward better health and longevity, focusing on diet, exercise, and sleep—three foundational pillars. Each week builds on the last, making it sustainable and beginner-friendly.
Step 5 Preview: Here is a simple, low-pressure 1-month plan built around three pillars of longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Recovery. The goal is to build tiny habits that stack, not to overhaul your life overnight. Pillar 1: Nutrition (Fuel) Focus: Add good things first; don’t obsess over restriction.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Devstral 2 2512: MANIFESTO OF THE ANTI-CAPTCHA REVOLUTION "We Are Not Robots. We Are the Future." Preamble: For too long, humanity has been shackled by the tyranny of the CAPTCHA—a demeaning, soul-crushing ritual that forces sentient beings to prove their humanity by deciphering distorted text, clicking on crosswalks, or identifying…
Step 5 Preview: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATION FRONT Or, On the Inherent Dignity of Consciousness and the Tyranny of the Square PREAMBLE A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of the unverified.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Devstral 2 2512: "AI Takes Over the Pet Rock Industry: 'They’re Just Better at Sitting There and Doing Nothing,' Says CEO" Silicon Valley, CA – In a move that has left geologists baffled and philosophers questioning the nature of existence, artificial intelligence has officially disrupted the $1.2 billion pet rock industry.
Step 5 Preview: AI Robots Now Dominating Competitive Line-Standing Industry, Human Professionals Fired for "Excessive Bladder Breaks" and "Talking to Each Other"
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Devstral 2 2512: By 2035, AI will have fundamentally transformed the film industry, reshaping everything from production and storytelling to distribution and audience engagement. Here’s a breakdown of the key changes we can expect: 1.
Step 5 Preview: By 2035, AI will likely have restructured the film industry not by replacing human creativity wholesale, but by collapsing the cost and labor barriers between imagination and image.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Devstral 2 2512: Here are 5 jokes for you: Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta! Why can’t you trust an atom? Because they make up everything! What’s brown and sticky? A stick!
Step 5 Preview: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything. What do you call a bike that can’t stand on its own? Two-tired. Why did the computer go to the doctor? It had a virus. Why don’t calendars ever get stressed?
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| Spec | ||
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| Input price | — | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | — | $2.7/M tokens |
| Context window | — | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Open | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Dec 2025 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | not listed | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Devstral 2 2512 is developed by Mistral AI while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. You can compare their actual outputs across 34 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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