In the global pursuit of top large language models (LLMS), OpenAI has firmly occupied the leading position. And the development of the AI industry has always been surprising, and recently, the new opponent that made OpenAI have to be careful, Mistral AI, has amplified its moves again!
In just 9 months since its establishment, the French partner has come up with a large model that can compete with GPT-4, Mistral Large, and at the same time officially announced its cooperation with Microsoft, which will invest $2.1 billion in Mistral AI and reach a multi-year partnership with Mistral AI. Under the agreement, Microsoft will offer a model of Mistral AI on Azure and will also become one of the company's minority shareholders. 
# mistral large
Introduction
Mistral Large is more than just a large language model, it represents Mistral's deep understanding and innovation of AI technology. According to the official introduction of Mistral, Mistral Large has top-level inference capabilities, which can be used for complex multilingual inference tasks, including text understanding, conversion, and ** generation. By default, Mistral Large supports a 32K token context window (typically over 20,000 English words) that can recall information precisely from large documents. 
In many mainstream benchmarks, Mistral Large beats Anthropic's Claude 2 and Google's Gemini Pro behind GPT-4! 
Fees
Currently, this new flagship model of Mistral AI is only available on the Azure AI and Mistral AI platforms. Among them, the pricing on Azure AI is as follows: The output is 0024 USD 1000 token, input is 0008 USD 1000 token.
# le chat
In addition, Mistral AI also launched a web-based AI chatbot called "Le Chat", which needless to say, is benchmarked against ChatGPT. It is already free to access and use. 
*For interested friends, hurry up and experience it, you can go directly to the country!
Summary
The release of Mistral Large marks a major breakthrough for Mistral in the field of AI language models. Its existence not only challenges the existing AI hegemony, but also opens up a new path for the future development of AI technology. With the continuous progress and development of technology, the MISTRAL series model will undoubtedly continue to promote the application of AI technology to a wider and deeper field, and the spirit of exploration and challenge of MISTRAL will continue to inspire every dreamer in the AI field!