# Mistral AI — Mistral 7B

- Company: Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
- Announced: 2023-09-27T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7379-mistral-7b
- Subject: Mistral / Le Chat
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Mistral 7B, Mistral 7B Instruct
- License: Apache 2.0

Mistral AI released Mistral 7B, a 7.3B parameter language model that outperforms Llama 2 13B on all benchmarks and is released under the Apache 2.0 license. The model uses grouped-query attention and sliding window attention for efficient inference. They also provide a fine-tuned chat version, Mistral 7B Instruct, which outperforms Llama 2 13B chat.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/:

> Mistral AI team is proud to release Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date.

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