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Mistral's Pixtral Large 124B model surpasses Llama 3.2 90B with new update

Mistral AI has released an updated version of its Mistral Large model, designated 24.11, which has demonstrated superior performance compared to Meta AI's Llama 3.2 90B model. The new Pixtral Large model, with 124 billion parameters, achieved better results on benchmarks, indicating a significant advancement in the capabilities of Mistral AI's offerings. This development suggests a competitive landscape where model size and architectural improvements continue to drive performance gains. AI

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Mistral's Pixtral Large 124B model surpasses Llama 3.2 90B with new update

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    Pixtral Large (124B) beats Llama 3.2 90B with updated Mistral Large 24.11

    **Mistral** has updated its **Pixtral Large** vision encoder to 1B parameters and released an update to the **123B parameter Mistral Large 24.11** model, though the update lacks major new features. **Pixtral Large** outperforms **Llama 3.2 90B** on multimodal benchmarks despite h…