The family combines a large mixture-of-experts model with dense versions for servers and devices. Downloadable weights and a permissive license increase control, but memory, quantization, data, and portability determine whether it can actually be deployed.
Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Large, its most advanced model, and will bring it to Azure through a partnership with Microsoft. The deal includes a €15 million investment and gives the French company a global distribution channel.
Mistral AI released its first model, Mistral 7B, under the Apache 2.0 licence: genuinely open source, unlike Llama 2's bespoke terms. What its paper says exactly — quantifiers included, since those get flattened in summary — what the two techniques that make it cheap actually do, and why “open” is a property of each release rather than of the company.
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