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Paris start-up Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x7B under Apache 2.0

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Source: Mistral AI: Mixtral of experts

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B on 11 December 2023, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 46.7 billion total parameters of which 12.9 billion are used per token. It is open-weight under the Apache 2.0 licence. Mistral said it beat Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks with six times faster inference and matched or beat GPT-3.5 on most standard benchmarks.

Why it matters

A European company released an open model it said matched GPT-3.5, two days after EU negotiators agreed the AI Act, giving European businesses a domestic model they could run themselves.

When
11 Dec 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0039
Who
Mistral AI

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Mistral AI. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Mistral AI

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextMistral AI launches Mistral Large and Le Chat and signs a Microsoft Azure partnership

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WTA-N-2023-0039: “Paris start-up Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x7B under Apache 2.0.” wheresthe.ai, 11 Dec 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/fr-mistral-mixtral-8x7b-release-2023-12/ (source: Mistral AI: Mixtral of experts).

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