Model Family
Mistral
French AI lab whose Mistral 7B and Mixtral MoE models popularised sparse open-weights LLMs.
Definition
Mistral AI publishes high-quality open-weights models — Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B/8x22B, Codestral, Pixtral, Mistral Large. Their use of sliding-window attention and mixture-of-experts made strong models cheap to serve. The lab also offers a paid API.
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