Mistral AI also announced a relationship with Microsoft, which would make Mistral Large available through Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning. Mistral AI, a France-based startup, has introduced a new proprietary large language model (LLM) to an increasingly congested AI market, claiming that its new Mistral Large can outperform several key competitors.
In a post on February 26, the Paris-based startup stated that Mistral Large surpassed many major LLMs in a “multitask language understanding” test, with the exception of GPT-4, and fared well in several arithmetic and coding tests.
However, Mistral Large’s performance was not compared to that of xAI’s Grok or Google’s Gemini Ultra, both of which were released in November and early February, respectively. Cointelegraph has reached out to Mistral AI for comment.
The founder and chief scientist of the company, Guillaume Lample, claims Mistral Large is “vastly superior” to Mistral AI’s previous models. Mistral AI also introduced “Le Chat” – an AI conversation interface built on top of its models, similar to how ChatGPT is built on GPT-3.5 and GPT -4.
Today, we are releasing Mistral Large, our latest model. Mistral Large is vastly superior to Mistral Medium, handles 32k tokens of context, and is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.
We have also updated Mistral Small on our API to a model that is… pic.twitter.com/MO4m6UIJUV
— Guillaume Lample (@GuillaumeLample) February 26, 2024
The company, which received $487 million in funding in December from Nvidia, Salesforce, and Andreessen Horowitz, stated that Mistral Large is fluent in French, Spanish, German, and Italian.
