When was Ministral 8B released?

Ministral 8B was released by Mistral on Wednesday, Oct 16 2024.

Who made Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B was built by Mistral. French AI company building open and commercial models. Founded in 2023 by former Meta and DeepMind researchers.

Is Ministral 8B open source?

Partly. Ministral 8B is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

What came before and after Ministral 8B?

Mistral's previous tracked release was Pixtral 24.09 on Sep 11 2024, 35 days earlier. It was followed by Ministral 3B on Oct 16 2024.

Ministral 8BOpen Weight

Released Oct 16 2024

Ministral 8B is an AI model released by Mistral on Wednesday, Oct 16 2024, 35 days after Pixtral 24.09. It is an open-weight model — the trained weights are available to download and run.

Ministral 8BOpen Weight

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