one year on
Mistral releases Mixtral 8x22B under Apache 2.0
Mixtral 8x22B is Mistral's latest open model, a sparse MoE with 39B active parameters out of 141B, released under Apache 2.0.
Mistral AI announced Mixtral 8x22B on April 17, its latest open model. It is a sparse mixture-of-experts model that uses only 39B active parameters out of 141B, released under Apache 2.0. Mixtral 8x22B supports a 64K token context window, is multilingual in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and natively supports function calling. The model sets a new standard for performance and efficiency, outperforming other open-weight models on benchmarks including MMLU, HellaSwag, and coding tasks.
One year later — open only if you can handle spoilers
Mistral formally announced Mixtral 8x22B on April 17 under Apache 2.0, and the model went on to become a popular base for fine-tuning. The torrent-first release ritual became a defining brand move for Mistral, though later models would be released through more conventional channels.