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Mistral AI Releases Powerful Edge-Ready Models for Phones and Laptops

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Chris McKay• October 16, 2024 • 2 min read

The smaller Ministral 3B, with just 3 billion parameters, outperforms Mistral's original 7 billion parameter model on most benchmarks. Its larger sibling, Ministral 8B, boasts performance rivaling models several times its size.

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Mistral AI Unveils Pixtral 12B, a Multimodal AI Model for Text and Image Processing

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Chris McKay• September 11, 2024 • 2 min read

Pixtral 12B is based on Mistral’s Nemo 12B, a previously released text model, with the addition of a 400-million-parameter vision adapter.

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Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2: A Powerful New Language Model

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Chris McKay• July 24, 2024 • 2 min read

On benchmarks such as HumanEval and MultiPL-E, Mistral Large 2 outperforms comparable models, including Llama 3.1 405B instruct, and scores just below GPT-4o. It also demonstrates strong performance on the MATH benchmark, falling only slightly behind GPT-4o.

NVIDIA Mistral

Mistral AI and NVIDIA Launch Powerful 12B Language Model for Enterprise Use

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Chris McKay• July 18, 2024 • 1 min read

Mistral NeMo 12B boasts a remarkable 128K context length, allowing it to process extensive and complex information with unparalleled coherence and accuracy.

Mistral Venture Capital Startups

Mistral AI Secures $640M in Series B Funding with a $6B Valuation

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Chris McKay• June 11, 2024 • 2 min read

The Series B round attracted a diverse array of investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Salesforce Ventures, and many others.

Mistral Enterprise AI

Mistral Launches Fine-Tuning Services to Customize AI Models

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Chris McKay• June 5, 2024 • 1 min read

The company has introduced three options for fine-tuning: open-source fine-tuning SDK, serless fine-tuning on la Plateforme, and custom training services.

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Mistral Unveils Codestral, an AI Code Assistant Trained on 80+ Programming Languages

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Chris McKay• May 29, 2024 • 2 min read

When compared to existing code-specific models, Codestral delivers impressive results in Python and SQL benchmarks.

Mistral Venture Capital Startups

Mistral AI Valuation Skyrockets to $6 Billion

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Chris McKay• May 9, 2024 • 3 min read

According to sources, Mistral AI is on the verge of securing $600 million in funding from investors, including prominent venture capital firms General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Snowflake Mistral Venture Capital

Snowflake Announces Partnership and Investment in Mistral AI

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Chris McKay• March 5, 2024 • 2 min read

The partnership will provide Snowflake customers access to Mistral AI's newest and most powerful LLM, Mistral Large.

Microsoft Mistral

Microsoft's $16.3 Million Investment in Mistral AI Attracts Scrutiny from EU Regulators

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Chris McKay• February 27, 2024 • 2 min read

While Microsoft's equity stake is currently about 1%, pending Mistral's next funding round, regulators will assess if the tech giant is gaining unfair advantage across multiple generative AI players.

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Microsoft Announces Multi-year Partnership with Mistral AI

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Chris McKay• February 26, 2024 • 2 min read

The integration of Mistral models into the Azure AI model catalog accessible through Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning provides Microsoft customers with a diverse selection of the best state-of-the-art and open-source models for crafting and deploying custom AI applications.

Open Source Mistral

Mistral Announces Le Chat and Mistral Large

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Chris McKay• February 26, 2024 • 3 min read

Mistral Large achieves strong performance on tests of reasoning, knowledge, coding, math and cross-lingual understanding and is second only to OpenAI's GPT-4

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How to Get Started with the New Mixtral-8x7B Mixture of Experts Model

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Chris McKay• December 11, 2023 • 4 min read

In this article, we cover the best ways to get started with Mixtral-8x7B. Let's dive in!

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Mistral AI Launches Platform Services with API Access

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Chris McKay• December 11, 2023 • 2 min read

Mistral’s platform aims to empower developers with cutting-edge generative AI. The API follows chat interface standards popularized by other services to minimize migration barriers.

Mistral Open Source

Mistral Unveils Mixtral 8x7B: A Leading Open SMoE Model

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Chris McKay• December 11, 2023 • 2 min read

Leveraging the mixture of experts design allows scaling model capacity and performance substantially while controlling memory and compute costs, since any single token does not end up using all weights.

Mistral Venture Capital Startups

Mistral AI Raises $415 Million at $2 Billion Valuation

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Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 2 min read

Andreessen Horowitz is leading the round with participation from other high-profile backers like NVIDIA, Salesforce, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, and Bpifrance.

Google Open Source Mistral

Google Vertex AI Now Supports Mistral AI

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Chris McKay• October 17, 2023 • 2 min read

Mistral-7B, is now natively available in the Vertex AI Notebooks. This integration provides seamless access to test, fine-tune, and deploy Mistral-7B on Google's managed AI service.

Open Source Mistral

How to Get Started with Mistral 7B

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Chris McKay• September 29, 2023 • 3 min read

The purpose of this article is to help readers easily get up and running with Mistral 7B locally, or in your preferred cloud.