How Did Open Source Catch Up To OpenAI? [Mixtral-8x7B]

New short course with Mistral AI! Mistral's open-source Mixtral 8x7B model uses a "mixture of experts" (MoE) architecture. Unlike a standard transformer, an MoE model has multiple expert feed-forward networks (8 in this case), with a gating network selecting two experts at inference time. This enables MoE to match the performance of a large model but faster inference. Mixtral 8x7B has 46.7B parameters but activates only 12.9B at inference time to predict the next token. In Getting Started with M