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So some of us just arrived back on Earth after quite a while in outer space. So ... WTF is Mistral 7B anyway? The article doesn't appear to show this basic inf
by simonblack 3y ago
So some of us just arrived back on Earth after quite a while in outer space.
So ... WTF is Mistral 7B anyway? The article doesn't appear to show this basic information anywhere. You'd expect a website site like this to give that information right up front. Even in a well-signposted sub-page. And what sort of things could I use it for?
The only 'Mistral' that sprang quickly to mind for me was an electric fan. Followed by the French wind itself, and then the French ships built for the Russians.
'Mistral 7B' has an identity crisis, to start with.
- selcuka 3y agoThese days 7B, 13B, 70B etc. in an article title can only mean the release of a new LLM (Large Language Model) with that many (7 billion, in this case) parameters. Mistral is the name the creators have given it.
- mk_stjames 3y agoIt leads off right under the header with: "Mistral AI team is proud to release Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date. Mistral 7B is a 7.3B parameter model that...." So, it's a powerful language model that has 7.3B (billion) parameters. If you've been away long enough to not know what that means, this release article isn't going to be for you anyway, and so you may want to start with reading up on what a Large Language Model is and can do, how they have developed in the last few years, and then go from there.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoAI trainers tend to give new base models and finetunes names, often in the spirit of Facebook's llama modelm