Mistral AI startup ChatGPT, Gemini and Cloud launch LLM
French-based startup Mistral AI has added a new proprietary Large Language Model (LLM) to the increasingly crowded AI market – the new Mistral Large could give many major competitors a run for their money.
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But Mistral's big performance didn't compare to the likes of xAI's Grok and Google's Gemini Ultra, which were released last November and early February, respectively. Cointelegraph has contacted Mistral AI for comment.
The company's founder and chief scientist, Guillaume Lampel, says Mistral Large is “far superior” to previous models of secret AI. Mistral AI also introduced “Le Chat” – an AI chat interface on top of the models – how ChatGPT was built on GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
Today, we're releasing our latest model, the Mistral Big. Mistral Large is much larger than Mistral Medium, holds 32k context signals, and is fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.
We've also updated the Mistral Small to a model with our API… pic.twitter.com/MO4m6UIJUV
— Guillaume Lample (@GuillaumeLample) February 26, 2024
The company, which received $487 million in funding from the likes of Nvidia, Salesforce and Andreessen Horowitz in December, said Mistral Larg knows more than 20,000 words in English and is also fluent in French, Spanish, German and Italian.
While the original model of Mistral AI was released under an open source license, Mistral is largely a closed, proprietary model similar to the recent LLMs released by OpenAI, which has led to complaints from some observers of X.
While third-party AI chatbot rating platforms such as ChatbotArena do not rate Mistral Large, its earlier model Mistral Medium ranks sixth on a list of over 60 LLMs.
Chatbot Arena's thousands of pairwise rankings are populated with the Bradley-Terry model, which uses random sampling to predict whether a model will win a direct competition with another model using an “Ello” rating.
The firm recently announced a partnership with Microsoft, which will make Mistral Bigger available on Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning.
We're announcing a multi-year partnership with @MistralAI as we build on our commitment to providing our customers with the best open and foundational models on Azure. https://t.co/k1L7lfFeES
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) February 26, 2024
“Microsoft's confidence in our model is a step forward in our journey,” said Mistral AI Business Focused LLM.
Mistral Large will use Azure's “supercomputing infrastructure” for training and agility purposes, and the two organizations will collaborate on AI research and development, according to a February 26, 2008 statement from Microsoft Azure AI Platform corporate vice president Eric Boyd.
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Mistral Large costs $8 per million input tokens and $24 per million output tokens, making it slightly cheaper than the GPT-4 Turbo by $10 and $30, respectively.
Mistral was valued at nearly $2 billion last December, Bloomberg reported.
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