• BB84@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Is there a use case where Mistral still beat Qwen or Gemma? If you’re using Mistral, which model and what do you use it for?

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      4 days ago

      I’m using it, all I know is it’s called “Le Chat”, is that what’s meant by model? - as you can tell I’m not very technical.

      I use it for generic simple queries. No idea how it compares with the others as I’ve not used them. I’m using it, as the title suggests "they’re not American*

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        4 days ago

        I see. Mistral was the favorite in self-hosted LLM circles back in 2023-2024 but general opinion is that they have since been far surpassed by Chinese and American models, hence my question.

        Good to know they’ve found a market with their online offering.

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          3 days ago

          I was a paying customer of Mistral for about a year, it’s quiet good… but nevertheless I moved to Google this month. Gemini is - at least in my experience - simply oh so much better…

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          Depends on what you are looking for. Mistral’s strong suite is that it can use most, if not all European languages. Also Mistral’s basic architecture is much more (cost & energy) effective due to the use of their use of seperate expert nodes iirc.