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This report provides an in-depth look at Mistral.ai, a new French artificial intelligence startup that has rapidly emerged as a key player in language models. Founded in early 2023 by former researchers from Meta and Google, Mistral.ai has gained traction for its open-source foundation models like Mistral 7B and the new Mixtral 8x7B. The report details Mistral.ai’s notable achievements including $415 million in Series A funding, strong benchmark performances beating models like LLama 2 13B, and ranking as the top open-source language model on the HuggingFace leaderboard and $5 top model overall. It also analyzes Mistral’s technical innovations like grouped-query attention and sliding window attention which boost efficiency. Additionally, the report examines Mistral’s commercial strategy centered on an open developer platform, its founding team’s backgrounds, and other proof points underscoring its meteoric rise. In summary, this report unpacks Mistral.ai’s origins, and notable traction so far, and assesses its future potential as a trailblazer of performant and transparent AI.