What is Mistral AI and what do they do?

Mistral AI is a French startup that aims to bring open models to state-of-the-art performance. They believe that an open approach to generative AI is necessary and that community-backed model development is the surest path to fight censorship and bias in a technology shaping our future. Mistral AI has released its first model, Mistral 7B, which is a 7.3 billion parameter language model that can generate human-quality text, write code, summarize text, and answer question. Mistral 7B is not just another large language model; it’s a powerhouse of generative AI capability. Mistral AI proposes that open generative AI models will allow public institutions and private companies to audit generative systems for flaws and detect bad usage of generative models. Mistral AI anticipates businesses across industries will want to create generative AI models that specialize in the business’ own tasks. Mistral AI plans to offer a paid version of its generative AI in the future, which will offer a “white box” solution with training. Mistral AI’s mission is to spearhead the revolution of open models. They strongly believe that by training their own models, releasing them openly, and fostering community contributions, they can build a credible alternative to the emerging AI oligopoly. Mistral AI has taken a significant stride forward with the release of Mistral 7B. Behind Mistral 7B’s performance lies its innovative attention mechanisms. Mistral 7B achieves an impressive feat by approaching CodeLlama 7B’s performance on code-related tasks while maintaining its prowess in English language tasks. <a href="https://medium.com/@nezarserrar/what-is-mistral-ai-and-what-do-they-do-b35426b6e687">Website</a>