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Claude 3 Opus vs Mixtral 8×7B

Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus
Mistral
Mixtral 8×7B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateMar 4 2024Dec 8 2023
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
33%
Science
GPQA Diamond
50.4%
Timeline
Release gapMixtral 8×7B shipped 87 days before Claude 3 Opus

Which is better: Claude 3 Opus or Mixtral 8×7B?

Claude 3 Opus and Mixtral 8×7B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mixtral 8×7B shipped 87 days before Claude 3 Opus, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude 3 Opus is proprietary, while Mixtral 8×7B is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3 Opus and Mixtral 8×7B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.

Mixtral 8×7B was released by Mistral on Dec 8 2023.

Claude 3 Opus is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Mixtral 8×7B is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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