Mixtral 8x22B Overview

Mixtral 8x22B is a new large language model (LLM) from Mistral AI. It's designed as a sparse mixture-of-experts model, meaning it uses only part of its total capacity—39 billion active parameters out of 141 billion in total.

Key Features

Mixtral 8x22B is built for efficiency and can handle a variety of tasks, such as:

- Understanding multiple languages
- Performing math reasoning
- Generating code
- Calling native functions
- Producing outputs with specific constraints

The model can also work with large documents, supporting a context window of **64,000 tokens** for better information retrieval.

Mistral AI claims that Mixtral 8x22B offers one of the best performance-to-cost ratios among community models and is notably fast due to its sparse activation.

Performance Results

According to Mistral AI, Mixtral 8x22B outperforms other leading open models like Command R+ and Llama 2 70B in several reasoning and knowledge tests, including MMLU, HellaS, TriQA, and NaturalQA.

In coding and math tasks, Mixtral 8x22B excels as well. For example, it scored 90% on the GSM8K benchmark for math problems, which is quite impressive.
