But the benchmarks don’t actually show it beating every Chinese model? Oh well, still cool
https://huggingface.co/collections/mistralai/mistral-large-4
FYI the ‘Le Chonk’ fat cat meme has been a thing in the localllama community, which I suppose Mistral is referencing. Its a nickname for giant models that only the insane would try to run locally.
And this is supposedly a big deal because Mistral was… not great, for a long time. They basically pioneered the MoE models that got so popular, then faded into irrelevance for a while.
Just having them be comparable is great, I’ve been very appreciative of China for keeping open weights cutting edge but monopolies are never good in the long run. Bring on the competition.
Why is Russia not prominent in the AI race? Too busy with war?
Historically Russia has had very good hacking programs, coders for one very important reason - they’ve always been sanctioned to hell and their equipment therefore remains limited to older models, which made hackers and programmers get very efficient and creative with what they have - the problem is ai doesn’t go very fast with that method, you need at least for now to rely on adding more and more gpu’s to increase the speed at which you’re advancing at least in initial training. If you find your successive models resulted in one you need to fix, you have to go back and retrain, so you need to have all that equipment on hand to do it, just distilling won’t fix issues you want fixed. So they’re limited. That makes it harder to be a leader where it’s necessary to have the most powerful equipment in the highest numbers.
Having one strong European company in the race is good news from my perspective and their strategy to (at least so far) publish the weights is another plus for me.
It would be so funny if Mistral also ran a distillation attack, but on Chinese models! 😆
You don’t even need to attack, they are open weight. Distill as much as you want.
LocalLlama
1 terabyte (1000000000000) parameter model.
What the hell guys? :)
Is this for your personal data centre???
