  We introduce FinTral, a suite of state-of-the-art multimodal large language
models (LLMs) built upon the Mistral-7b model and tailored for financial
analysis. FinTral integrates textual, numerical, tabular, and image data. We
enhance FinTral with domain-specific pretraining, instruction fine-tuning, and
RLAIF training by exploiting a large collection of textual and visual datasets
we curate for this work. We also introduce an extensive benchmark featuring
nine tasks and 25 datasets for evaluation, including hallucinations in the
financial domain. Our FinTral model trained with direct preference optimization
employing advanced Tools and Retrieval methods, dubbed FinTral-DPO-T&R,
demonstrates an exceptional zero-shot performance. It outperforms ChatGPT-3.5
in all tasks and surpasses GPT-4 in five out of nine tasks, marking a
significant advancement in AI-driven financial technology. We also demonstrate
that FinTral has the potential to excel in real-time analysis and
decision-making in diverse financial contexts. The GitHub repository for
FinTral is available at \url{https://github.com/UBC-NLP/fintral}.
