>The Mistral 7B model is available today for download by various means, including a 13.4-gigabyte torrent (with a few hundred seeders already). The company has also started a GitHub repository and Discord channel for collaboration and troubleshooting.
Mistral's process for releasing new models is extremely low-information. After getting very confused by this link I tried looking for a link that has any better information, and there just isn't one.
I thought Mixtral's release was weird when they just pasted a magnet link [0] into Twitter with no information, but at least people could download and analyze it so we got some reasonable third-party commentary in between that and the official announcement. With this one there's nothing at all to go on besides the name and the black box.
> An over-enthusiastic employee of one of our early access customers leaked a quantised (and watermarked) version of an old model we trained and distributed quite openly.
> To quickly start working with a few selected customers, we retrained this model from Llama 2 the minute we got access to our entire cluster — the pretraining finished on the day of Mistral 7B release.
Announcing 2 new non-open source models, and they won't even release the previous mistral medium? I did not expect... well I did expect this, but I did not think they would pivot so soon.
To commemorate the change, their website appears to have changed too. Their title used to be "Mistral AI | Open-Weight models" a few days ago[0].
It is now "Mistral AI | Frontier AI in your hands." [1]
They are withholding a bigger model which at this point is "Mistral Medium" and that'll be available only behind their API end point. Makes sense for them to make money from it!
https://ollama.ai/library/mistral should be the instruct/uncensored model, let me know if it that doesn't seem to be the case! You may have to run `ollama pull mistral` to download the latest version
Mistral Medium is available via their API, but not available for download, for example, so I find that confusing if you’re claiming their CEO claimed the plan is to be open for all models.
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