diff --git a/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/README.md b/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/README.md
index c15b8867..f266bcf2 100644
--- a/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/README.md
+++ b/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/README.md
@@ -119,12 +119,12 @@ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path-json-service-account>
 
 ### Mistral AI
 
-To use Mistral AI you need to set the following environment variables:
+To use Mistral AI you need to set the following environment variables. The app has been tested with Mistral Large Model deployed through Microsoft Azure. More information [here](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-studio/how-to/deploy-models-mistral).
 
 ```
 export LLM_TYPE=mistral
 export MISTRAL_API_KEY=...
-export MISTRAL_API_ENDPOINT=...  # optional
+export MISTRAL_API_ENDPOINT=...  # should be of the form https://<endpoint>.<region>.inference.ai.azure.com
 export MISTRAL_MODEL=...  # optional
 ```
 
diff --git a/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/api/llm_integrations.py b/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/api/llm_integrations.py
index b73e2cad..d297bc03 100644
--- a/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/api/llm_integrations.py
+++ b/example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/api/llm_integrations.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def init_bedrock(temperature):
 def init_mistral_chat(temperature):
     MISTRAL_API_ENDPOINT = os.getenv("MISTRAL_API_ENDPOINT")
     MISTRAL_API_KEY = os.getenv("MISTRAL_API_KEY")
-    MISTRAL_MODEL = os.getenv("MISTRAL_MODEL")
+    MISTRAL_MODEL = os.getenv("MISTRAL_MODEL", "Mistral-large")
     kwargs = {
         "mistral_api_key": MISTRAL_API_KEY,
         "temperature": temperature,