Command R vs. Mistral Large

Overview

With an author of the "Attention is All You Need" paper as one of its co-founders, Cohere's LLM is built with a focus on enterprise. Products based on its LLM include semantic search, embeddings, and text generation.

Cohere is an AI platform for the enterprise specializing in large language model-powered offerings. Its flagship offering is its Command R model (and the research open weights Command R+) which offer scalable and high-performance models competitive with offerings by companies such as OpenAI and Mistral. Command R+ in particular is designed to peform well on RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) applications, multilingual applications, and tool use.

Initial release: 2021-11-15

Reference

https://docs.cohere.com/docs/the-cohere-platform

Further Reading

Overview

Mistral Large is Mistral AI's flagship proprietary model, competitive with GPT-4 class models. It excels at complex reasoning, multilingual tasks, and code generation, and is available via the La Plateforme API and major cloud providers.

Released in February 2024, Mistral Large is Mistral AI's top-tier commercial offering. It supports a 32K token context window and achieves top-three ranking on MMLU at time of release, behind only GPT-4 and Google's Gemini Ultra. Mistral Large 2 followed in July 2024 with a 128K context window and improved instruction following. Both versions are available via Mistral's own API and through Azure and AWS Bedrock.

Initial release: 2024-02-26

Reference

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/

Further Reading

• https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/
• https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-2407/