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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mistral 7B

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Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet
Mistral
Mistral 7B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateMar 4 2024Sep 27 2023
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
40.4%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapMistral 7B shipped 159 days before Claude 3 Sonnet

Which is better: Claude 3 Sonnet or Mistral 7B?

Claude 3 Sonnet leads Mistral 7B on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Mistral 7B shipped 159 days before Claude 3 Sonnet, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral 7B is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude 3 Sonnet is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude 3 Sonnet released?
Claude 3 Sonnet was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
When was Mistral 7B released?
Mistral 7B was released by Mistral on Sep 27 2023.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Mistral 7B open source?
Mistral 7B is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude 3 Sonnet is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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