Mistral ships Agentic Search: iterative retrieval beats one-shot RAG

Mistral's new Agentic Search hands the model five file-system-style tools — search, open, navigate, read, grep — so it hunts, opens, and verifies across a corpus instead of retrieving fixed chunks in one pass. On FinanceBench (368 SEC filings, 150 questions) accuracy jumped from 26.7% to 86%, and table-heavy OfficeQA Pro rose +45.6 points, while cutting tokens by up to a third and P90 latency by ~40%. No fine-tuning: it works over any model (tested on Mistral Medium 3.5 and GLM-5.2) via the Search Toolkit, Studio/Vibe, or a Search Starter App, cloud or on-prem.