GPT-4 killer?

Happy Tuesday! Current status is listening to some lo-fi while sipping on a fresh brew. Any song recommendations? 

Anyway, here’s the news: 

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If you haven’t heard of Mistral, I wouldn’t blame you. AI startups are all the rage these days, and for good reason. It's the pinnacle of future tech right now, and who wouldn’t want to leave their mark? 

Mistral is a French AI company that launched in May last year. It quickly received unicorn status in December after securing $385 million in funding led by A16z. The company is co-founded by Google DeepMind and Meta alums and is being touted as a potential European rival to OpenAI. 

The team is hoping to make good on that claim by launching a new flagship Large Language Model (LLM) called Mistral Large that is designed to rival some of the top-tier models like GPT-4 and Claude. 

Mistral Large is marketed as a cheaper GPT-4 alternative. It’s open-source by design, supports 32k context windows, has native function calling capacities, and is even bilingual from the get-go. 

According to the announcement, Mistral Large achieves fairly strong results on some commonly used benchmarks, to the point that it takes second place ahead of Claude and just behind GPT-4 when you measure multitask language understanding. 

Why does it matter? Well, Microsoft seemingly doesn’t want to put all its eggs in one basket with OpenAI and has announced a multi-year deal with Mistral. The deal will include around $15 million in investment and a research and development program to build applications for governments across Europe on top of Azure. 

Alongside the LLM, Mistral also launched Le Chat, the company’s own version of ChatGPT, where you can test out Mistral Large alongside its other LLM offerings, like Mistral Small and Next. 

As the AI race heats up, it’s becoming less and less clear which companies will come out on top. Can Mistral cement itself as Europe’s alternative? Only time will tell. 

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