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Mixtral 8x7B

Mistral AI · 2023 · LLM · France

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A · App
Yes
B · Built By
Mistral AI
C · CEO & Politics
Arthur Mensch — European centrist / pro-EU regulation
D · Date
2023
E · Expertise
Beginner (app available)
F · Free Tier
Yes
G · Generates
Text only
H · Deployment
Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs
Text
J · Jurisdiction
France
K · Key Staffers
Guillaume Lample (Co-Founder, Chief Scientist), Timothée Lacroix (Co-Founder)
L · Languages
English-primary
M · Model Type
LLM
N · Safety Issues
None reported
O · Open Source
Yes — open weights
P · Pricing
Free (open weights, Apache 2.0); Mistral API retired it on March 30, 2025
Q · AIDb Rating
5/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 10/10 · Significance 5/10 → 5.05
R · What Makes It Special
Mistral AI's Mixtral 8x7B (December 11, 2023), a sparse mixture-of-experts model whose router picks 2 of 8 expert groups for each token, so it has 46.7B total parameters but uses 12.9B per token; it outperformed Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks with 6x faster inference, matched or beat GPT-3.5 on most standard benchmarks, handled a 32K-token context and English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and was strong at code. Apache 2.0; retired from Mistral's API March 30, 2025.
S · Stock / Status
Private (€21B+ valuation, Sep 2026)
T · Training Cutoff
[UNKNOWN]
U · Users
[UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat
No
W · Weights
Downloadable
X · X Handle
@MistralAI
Y · Year Founded
[UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line
Open-weights LLM from Mistral AI, released 2023.

Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗

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