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What does Mistral AI do?
Perplexity AI is a young company that specialises in AI and machine learning solutions. They focus on developing advanced algorithms and technologies to tackle complex problems across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and technology. What is Mistral AI? Mistral AI, a French company …
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Perplexity AI is a young company that specialises in AI and machine learning solutions. They focus on developing advanced algorithms and technologies to tackle complex problems across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and technology. What is Mistral AI? Mistral…
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Perplexity AI is a young company that specialises in AI and machine learning solutions. They focus on developing advanced algorithms and technologies to tackle complex problems across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and technology. Mistral AI, a French company selling AI, was founded in April 2023 by previous employees of Meta Platforms and Google DeepMind . It produces open-source large language models (LLMs) citing the foundational importance of open-source software and as a response to proprietary models.
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Analysis
Before co-founding Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch worked at Google DeepMind which is Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory, while Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix worked at Meta Platforms. The co-founders met while students at École Polytechnique . Two models, Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B, have been published and are available as weights. Its first language processing model “Mistral 7B” was available on 27 September 2023 under the free Apache 2.0 license . This model has 7 billion parameters, a small size compared to its competitors. The company released the Mixtral 8x7B model with 46.7 billion parameters but using only 12.9 billion per token thanks to the mixture of experts’ architecture, on December 11, 2023. The model masters 5 languages (French, Spanish, Italian, English and German) and outperforms, according to its developers’ tests, the “LLama 2 70B” model from Meta.
Key Points
- Mistral AI is a French company selling artificial intelligence (AI) products. It was founded in April 2023 by previous employees of Meta Platforms and Google DeepMind.
- Two models, Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B, have been published and are available as weights. Three models, Mistral Small, Mistral Medium and Mistral Large, are available via API only.
- Mistral AI has also launched a chatbot called Le Chat, a counterpoint to ChatGPT and contained a partnership with tech giant Microsoft.
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