Mistral NeMo vs. Llama 2

We are excited to unveil Mistral NeMo, our latest and most sophisticated small model, boasting an impressive 12 billion parameters and a vast context length of 128,000 tokens, all available under the Apache 2.0 license. In collaboration with NVIDIA, Mistral NeMo stands out in its category for its exceptional reasoning capabilities, extensive world knowledge, and coding skills. Its architecture adheres to established industry standards, ensuring it is user-friendly and serves as a smooth transition for those currently using Mistral 7B. To encourage adoption by researchers and businesses alike, we are providing both pre-trained base models and instruction-tuned checkpoints, all under the Apache license. A remarkable feature of Mistral NeMo is its quantization awareness, which enables FP8 inference while maintaining high performance levels. Additionally, the model is well-suited for a range of global applications, showcasing its ability in function calling and offering a significant context window. When benchmarked against Mistral 7B, Mistral NeMo demonstrates a marked improvement in comprehending and executing intricate instructions, highlighting its advanced reasoning abilities and capacity to handle complex multi-turn dialogues. Furthermore, its design not only enhances its performance but also positions it as a formidable option for multi-lingual tasks, ensuring it meets the diverse needs of various use cases while paving the way for future innovations.

We are excited to unveil the latest version of our open-source large language model, which includes model weights and initial code for the pretrained and fine-tuned Llama language models, ranging from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. The Llama 2 pretrained models have been crafted using a remarkable 2 trillion tokens and boast double the context length compared to the first iteration, Llama 1. Additionally, the fine-tuned models have been refined through the insights gained from over 1 million human annotations. Llama 2 showcases outstanding performance compared to various other open-source language models across a wide array of external benchmarks, particularly excelling in reasoning, coding abilities, proficiency, and knowledge assessments. For its training, Llama 2 leveraged publicly available online data sources, while the fine-tuned variant, Llama-2-chat, integrates publicly accessible instruction datasets alongside the extensive human annotations mentioned earlier. Our project is backed by a robust coalition of global stakeholders who are passionate about our open approach to AI, including companies that have offered valuable early feedback and are eager to collaborate with us on Llama 2. The enthusiasm surrounding Llama 2 not only highlights its advancements but also marks a significant transformation in the collaborative development and application of AI technologies. This collective effort underscores the potential for innovation that can emerge when the community comes together to share resources and insights.