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Mistral Small

mistralai/mistral-small

With 22 billion parameters, Mistral Small v24.09 offers a convenient mid-point between (Mistral NeMo 12B)[/mistralai/mistral-nemo] and (Mistral Large 2)[/mistralai/mistral-large], providing a cost-effective solution that can be deployed across various platforms and environments. It has better reasoning, exhibits more capabilities, can produce and reason about code, and is multiligual, supporting English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

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Jan 10, 2024

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Sep 2023

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With 22 billion parameters, Mistral Small v24.09 offers a convenient mid-point between (Mistral NeMo 12B)[/mistralai/mistral-nemo] and (Mistral Large 2)[/mistralai/mistral-large], providing a cost-effective solution that can be deployed across various platforms and environments.

Mistral Small has a 32,000 token context window.

Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral Small 4, Devstral 2 2512 and 16 more are other text models from Mistral AI.

Mistral Small was released on January 10, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2023.

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