Best Large Language Models for Mistral AI

LM-Kit.NET lets C# and VB.NET developers integrate large and small language models for natural language understanding, text generation, multi-turn dialogue, and low-latency on-device inference, while its vision language models add image analysis and captioning, its embedding models turn text into vectors for fast semantic search, and its LM-Lit catalog lists every state-of-the-art model with continuous updates, all in one efficient toolkit that stays inside your codebase without revealing any AI origin to the user.

Mistral 7B is a 7.3-billion-parameter language model that outperforms larger models like Llama 2 13B across various benchmarks. It employs Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) for faster inference and Sliding Window Attention (SWA) to efficiently handle longer sequences. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, Mistral 7B is accessible for deployment across diverse platforms, including local environments and major cloud services. Additionally, a fine-tuned version, Mistral 7B Instruct, demonstrates enhanced performance in instruction-following tasks, surpassing models like Llama 2 13B Chat.

As a tribute to Cleopatra, whose glorious destiny ended in tragic snake circumstances, we are proud to release Codestral Mamba, a Mamba2 language model specialized in code generation, available under an Apache 2.0 license. Codestral Mamba is another step in our effort to study and provide new architectures. It is available for free use, modification, and distribution, and we hope it will open new perspectives in architecture research. Mamba models offer the advantage of linear time inference and the theoretical ability to model sequences of infinite length. It allows users to engage with the model extensively with quick responses, irrespective of the input length. This efficiency is especially relevant for code productivity use cases, this is why we trained this model with advanced code and reasoning capabilities, enabling it to perform on par with SOTA transformer-based models.

Mistral NeMo, our new best small model. A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, and released under the Apache 2.0 license. Mistral NeMo is a 12B model built in collaboration with NVIDIA. Mistral NeMo offers a large context window of up to 128k tokens. Its reasoning, world knowledge, and coding accuracy are state-of-the-art in its size category. As it relies on standard architecture, Mistral NeMo is easy to use and a drop-in replacement in any system using Mistral 7B. We have released pre-trained base and instruction-tuned checkpoints under the Apache 2.0 license to promote adoption for researchers and enterprises. Mistral NeMo was trained with quantization awareness, enabling FP8 inference without any performance loss. The model is designed for global, multilingual applications. It is trained on function calling and has a large context window. Compared to Mistral 7B, it is much better at following precise instructions, reasoning, and handling multi-turn conversations.

As a tribute to Archimedes, whose 2311th anniversary we’re celebrating this year, we are proud to release our first Mathstral model, a specific 7B model designed for math reasoning and scientific discovery. The model has a 32k context window published under the Apache 2.0 license. We’re contributing Mathstral to the science community to bolster efforts in advanced mathematical problems requiring complex, multi-step logical reasoning. The Mathstral release is part of our broader effort to support academic projects, it was produced in the context of our collaboration with Project Numina. Akin to Isaac Newton in his time, Mathstral stands on the shoulders of Mistral 7B and specializes in STEM subjects. It achieves state-of-the-art reasoning capacities in its size category across various industry-standard benchmarks. In particular, it achieves 56.6% on MATH and 63.47% on MMLU, with the following MMLU performance difference by subject between Mathstral 7B and Mistral 7B.

On September 17, 2024, Mistral AI announced several key updates to enhance the accessibility and performance of their AI offerings. They introduced a free tier on "La Plateforme," their serverless platform for tuning and deploying Mistral models as API endpoints, enabling developers to experiment and prototype at no cost. Additionally, Mistral AI reduced prices across their entire model lineup, with significant cuts such as a 50% reduction for Mistral Nemo and an 80% decrease for Mistral Small and Codestral, making advanced AI more cost-effective for users. The company also unveiled Mistral Small v24.09, a 22-billion-parameter model offering a balance between performance and efficiency, suitable for tasks like translation, summarization, and sentiment analysis. Furthermore, they made Pixtral 12B, a vision-capable model with image understanding capabilities, freely available on "Le Chat," allowing users to analyze and caption images without compromising text-based performance.

We introduce Codestral, our first-ever code model. Codestral is an open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks. It helps developers write and interact with code through a shared instruction and completion API endpoint. As it masters code and English, it can be used to design advanced AI applications for software developers. Codestral is trained on a diverse dataset of 80+ programming languages, including the most popular ones, such as Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, and Bash. It also performs well on more specific ones like Swift and Fortran. This broad language base ensures Codestral can assist developers in various coding environments and projects.

Mistral Large is Mistral AI's flagship language model, designed for advanced text generation and complex multilingual reasoning tasks, including text comprehension, transformation, and code generation. It supports English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, offering a nuanced understanding of grammar and cultural contexts. With a 32,000-token context window, it can accurately recall information from extensive documents. The model's precise instruction-following and native function-calling capabilities facilitate application development and tech stack modernization. Mistral Large is accessible through Mistral's platform, Azure AI Studio, and Azure Machine Learning, and can be self-deployed for sensitive use cases. Benchmark evaluations indicate that Mistral Large achieves strong results, making it the world's second-ranked model generally available through an API, next to GPT-4.

Mistral Saba is a 24-billion-parameter model trained on meticulously curated datasets from across the Middle East and South Asia. The model provides more accurate and relevant responses than models that are over five times its size while being significantly faster and lower cost. It can also serve as a strong base to train highly specific regional adaptations. Mistral Saba is available as an API and can be deployed locally within customers' security premises. Like the recently released Mistral Small 3, the model is lightweight and can be deployed on single-GPU systems, responding at speeds of over 150 tokens per second. In keeping with the rich cultural cross-pollination between the Middle East and South Asia, Mistral Saba supports Arabic and many Indian-origin languages and is particularly strong in South Indian-origin languages such as Tamil. This capability enhances its versatility in multinational use across these interconnected regions.

Mistral AI has launched the Mistral Large 2, an advanced AI model designed to excel in code generation, multilingual capabilities, and complex reasoning tasks. The model features a 128k context window, supporting dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, as well as over 80 programming languages. Mistral Large 2 is tailored for high-throughput single-node inference, making it ideal for large-context applications. Its improved performance on benchmarks like MMLU and its enhanced code generation and reasoning abilities ensure accuracy and efficiency. The model also incorporates better function calling and retrieval, supporting complex business applications.

Mistral Medium 3 is a powerful AI model designed to deliver state-of-the-art performance at a fraction of the cost compared to other models. It offers simpler deployment options, allowing for hybrid or on-premises configurations. Mistral Medium 3 excels in professional applications like coding and multimodal understanding, making it ideal for enterprise use. Its low-cost structure makes it highly accessible while maintaining top-tier performance, outperforming many larger models in specific domains.

Pixtral Large is a 124-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model developed by Mistral AI, building upon their Mistral Large 2 architecture. It integrates a 123-billion-parameter multimodal decoder with a 1-billion-parameter vision encoder, enabling advanced understanding of documents, charts, and natural images while maintaining leading text comprehension capabilities. With a context window of 128,000 tokens, Pixtral Large can process at least 30 high-resolution images simultaneously. The model has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks such as MathVista, DocVQA, and VQAv2, surpassing models like GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5 Pro. Pixtral Large is available under the Mistral Research License for research and educational use, and under the Mistral Commercial License for commercial applications.

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