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Mistral

A French AI company that builds efficient, high-performance language models.

Definition

A French AI company that builds efficient, high-performance language models. Their Mixtral (mixture-of-experts) and Mistral 7B models showed that smaller, well-trained models can compete with much larger ones. Known for releasing open-weight models and competing effectively against Big Tech AI labs.

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Mixture of Experts

An architecture where multiple specialized sub-networks (experts) share a model, but only a few activate for each input.

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AI models whose weights, code, and sometimes training data are publicly released for anyone to use, modify, and build upon.

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A large AI model trained on broad data that can be adapted for many different tasks.

Activation Function

A mathematical function applied to a neuron's output that introduces non-linearity into the network.

Adam Optimizer

An optimization algorithm that combines the best parts of two other methods — AdaGrad and RMSProp.

AGI

Artificial General Intelligence.

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