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LLaMA 1 vs Mistral Medium

Meta LLaMA 1 vs Mistral Mistral Medium — side-by-side specs.

Meta
LLaMA 1
Mistral
Mistral Medium
Overview
CompanyMetaMistral
Release dateFeb 24 2023Dec 2023
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapLLaMA 1 shipped 280 days before Mistral Medium

Which is better: LLaMA 1 or Mistral Medium?

LLaMA 1 and Mistral Medium do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. LLaMA 1 shipped 280 days before Mistral Medium, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

LLaMA 1 is an open-source / open-weight model; Mistral Medium 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 LLaMA 1 released?
LLaMA 1 was released by Meta on Feb 24 2023.
When was Mistral Medium released?
Mistral Medium was released by Mistral on Dec 2023.
Is LLaMA 1 or Mistral Medium open source?
LLaMA 1 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Meta. Mistral Medium is a proprietary model released by Mistral.

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