Mixtral 8x7B was released December 11, 2023 as an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model. Used 8 expert networks with 7B parameters each (46.7B total, 12.9B active per token). Matched or outperformed Llama 2 70B and GPT-3.5 on most benchmarks while being 6x faster at inference. Scored 70.6% on MMLU. Released under Apache 2.0 license.
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