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Mistral AI's Mixtral model sparks a rush of innovation and adoption

Mistral AI has released Mixtral 8x7B, a sparse mixture-of-experts (SMoE) large language model. This model demonstrates strong performance, outperforming Llama 2 70B on many benchmarks while using significantly less compute during inference. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing for commercial use. AI

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RANK_REASON Release of a new open-source model with performance benchmarks.

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  1. Smol AINews TIER_1 ·

    12/9/2023: The Mixtral Rush

    **Mixtral's weights** were released without code, prompting the **Disco Research community** and **Fireworks AI** to implement it rapidly. Despite efforts, no significant benchmark improvements were reported, limiting its usefulness for local LLM usage but marking progress for th…