What is Mistral 7B?

Software that works with human language has to learn from a vast amount of written text. A large language model (LLM) is a neural network trained on such text so it can generate, summarize, translate and analyze language. Mistral 7B is an LLM of this kind with 7 billion parameters, which are the adjustable numbers the model learns during training. Its model card calls it a pretrained generative text model, meaning a base model for producing text. It was described in a research paper submitted by the Mistral AI team in October 2023, and the authors state it is released under the Apache 2.0 license, a permissive open-source software license.

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