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There has been an interesting development in the field of AI recently, as Mistral, an AI startup from Paris, released their latest open-source model, Mixtral 8x7B, on December 8th.
If you want to immediately start experiencing these free AI models, simply click on the "Read Original Article" at the end of the article and directly experience the models mentioned in the text in the app store.
There are no carefully edited demo videos or long introduction blogs, only simple and direct magnet download links, behind which are complete model files totaling a whopping 87GB.
It seems to be saying, "Here's the code, try it out to see if it works!"
The actual results match its confidence. According to the experiences of most people, the performance of Mixtral 8x7B is comparable to GPT-3.5, which is quite rare for a small-scale open-source model.
After this battle, Mistral AI was honored with the nickname "Europe's OpenAI," which is quite rare for a startup company that was founded in May 2023 and has only about 20 employees.
However, if you want to freely play with this large model, you can't do without mastering the HuggingFace community and spending a lot of time deploying and configuring it on your local GPU, following the instructions.
Model vendors are well aware that such a complex process will exclude most ordinary users, so they usually choose to collaborate with third-party service providers like OpenRouter.ai.
This is equivalent to hosting their models on a third-party operating platform, where the platform manages users, provides API interfaces, and sets prices.
Mistral AI officially announced that all hosting services on OpenRouter's online API are completely free! This means that developers only need to access the API service to immediately experience this AI large model!