Ministral 3 3B Base 2512 is the smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, offering a compact yet capable multimodal architecture suited for lightweight AI applications. It combines a 3.4B-parameter language model with a 0.4B vision encoder, enabling both text and image understanding in a tiny footprint. As the base pretrained model, it is not fine-tuned for instructions or reasoning, making it the ideal foundation for custom post-training, domain adaptation, or specialized downstream tasks. The model is fully optimized for edge deployment and can run locally on a single GPU, fitting in 16GB VRAM in BF16 or less than 8GB when quantized. ...