back to article Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models

Mistral AI on Wednesday revealed a 123-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) called Mistral Large 2 (ML2) which, it claims, comes within spitting distance of the top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. The news comes a day after Meta launched the hotly anticipated 405-billion-parameter variant of Llama 3 with a 128 …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Slowly but surely

    Great piece.

    It is great to see a counter to the ChatGPT bloat. I read a post from someone here that ran the Llama model on a box with 128gb of RAM and it ended in it sprouting nonsense in a short time.

    This area of optimisation and compression is a driving force ATM, and that's great 'cause no way can bloat-beasts like ChatGPT continue to consume the World's resources.

    These 'lean' LLM face huge knock backs from the power companies. OpenAI is just a front for Sam's power business.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Big Brother

    MinitrueAI is now a thing

    I've noticed that ChatGPT always returns the orthodox opinion. So if people are going to primarily settle on AI chatbots for their information, it's going to narrow-down the range of thought. How very Orwellian:

    "Every byte corrupted, every file hacked and spliced, every image glitched and remastered, every landmark and alley rebranded, every timestamp tweaked and ghosted."

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