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Llama 3.3 vs. Mistral

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Llama 3.3

Llama 3.3

Overview

Llama 3.3 is Meta's end of 2024 Llama release, offering improved performance over Llama 3.2 with enhanced reasoning capabilities and better multilingual support.


Llama 3.3 represents Meta's continued advancement in open-source language models. Building upon the success of Llama 3.1 and 3.2, version 3.3 offers significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks. The 70B parameter model provides performance competitive with much larger proprietary models while maintaining Meta's commitment to open-source accessibility for most commercial use cases.


Initial release: 2024-12-06

Mistral

Mistral

Overview

Developed by some of the researchers behind Llama, the Mistral large language models were an early standard for accessible and performant open source models.


Mistral AI offers 7B and mixture-of-experts models (8x7B Mixtral and 8x22B Mixtral) that are competitive or better than commercial models of similar size. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, the Mistral models are now also available via most cloud vendors. The latest Mixtral 8x22B represents state-of-the-art performance in the open-source domain. Mistral AI has also begun offering proprietary Small, Large, and Edge models via their business API.


Initial release: 2023-09-27

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Custom (Commercial OK) Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 70B 7B, 8x7B, 8x22B