Mistral Family

Mistral is a family of large language models developed by Mistral AI, a French startup founded in 2023 by former Meta and DeepMind researchers. The family is known for delivering strong performance relative to model size, with a focus on efficiency and open availability. Key models include Mistral 7B (2023), Mixtral 8x7B (a Mixture-of-Experts model, 2023), Mixtral 8x22B (2024), Mistral Large (2024), and Mistral Small. Mistral models are widely used as base models for fine-tuning and merging, including as components in Sakana AI’s Evolutionary Model Merge.