Mistral AI News | Sep 20, 2024

Mistral AI now offers a free start option for their developer platform and has introduced the Mistral Small 24.09 model, which is cost-efficient and suitable for various use cases...


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Mistral AI

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Mistral AI is a French company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) products. They develop fast, open-source, and secure language models, with a focus on facilitating specialization of models on business use-cases. The company was founded in April 2023 by former employees of Meta Platforms and Google, and has gained recognition for their cutting-edge AI technology and research.


Updates as of Sep 20, 2024

  • Mistral AI now offers a free start option for their developer platform and has introduced the Mistral Small 24.09 model, which is cost-efficient and suitable for various use cases.
  • Mistral AI recently released Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409, an open-source large language model designed to enhance AI system performance and accessibility.
  • Mistral AI introduced Pixtral 12B, a multimodal AI model that processes text, links, and images, available for free download and use under an Apache 2.0 license.
  • Mistral AI has released new model weights featuring GeLU and 2D RoPE for the vision adapter and an increased vocab size of 131072.
  • Cerebrium used Mistral AI models to create realistic training simulations for handling customer interactions and sales scenarios.
  • Mistral AI uses Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to pre-train its Mathstral model with PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP).
  • Misha Jessel-Kenyon has joined Mistral AI as their first Go-to-Market hire in the UK.
  • DuckDuckGo's AI Chat now includes the Mixtral 8x7B model from Mistral AI.
  • Misha Jessel-Kenyon has joined Mistral AI as GTM Lead, UK&I, relocating from Zscaler where they served as Major Account Director.
  • Arthur Mensch will have a fireside chat with Jensen Huang live after Mistral AI's Pixtral release.

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