Demystifying Mixtral of Experts

Mistral AI’s open-source Mixtral 8x7B model made a lot of waves — here’s what’s under the hood

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Mixtral 8x7B, Mistral AI’s new sparse Mixtures of Experts LLM, recently made a lot of waves, with dramatic headlines such as “Mistral AI Introduces Mixtral 8x7B: a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) Language Model Transforming Machine Learning” or “Mistral…