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Bullshit article. The big LLAMA 2 is still the strongest downloadable model. "The new kings" are compared to the smaller 16B parameters version. This is basically hype for investors.
I disagree. Mistral actually being open source, as well as the new criteria for how open source models are, is pretty worth being aware of.

Plus, if they make a larger Mistral model that's the same level of performance but much larger, it'll be the be one of the very best open source models.

It's also pretty insulting that Meta is calling their models "open source" when that's really debatable.

"if" does a lot of heavy lifting here. The open source part is irrelevant for most of us.