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Artificial intelligence · 2023

Mistral 7B

A Paris startup's 7B open model beats Llama 2 13B on every benchmark tested.

Mistral AI, founded in 2023 by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, released Mistral 7B under Apache 2.0 in September 2023. It showed a small, well-trained model could outperform much larger ones, and established Europe as an open-weights player.

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Best AI score on GPQA Diamond Latest: 95.8 % correct (2026) Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (benchmark_data.zip, gpqa_diamond.csv); Anthropic: Claude 3 public launch (March 4, 2024)

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