Mistral Large 2 features:

- 128k context window
- supports 80+ coding languages
- 123 billion dense parameters
- matches Llama 3 405B in coding with 1/3 the parameters
- superior function calling compared to GPT-4o and Claude
- released under the Mistral Research License

and it’s only wednesday 🔥 

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-2407/

(more links) 

Mistral Large 2: Quality, Performance & Price Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mistral-large-2

Mistral Large 2: API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mistral-large-2/providers

Mistral Large 2: 

- 123B parameters
- 128k context window
- natively multilingual
- strong code & reasoning
- SOTA function calling
- open weights for non-commercial use

its also smaller and cheaper to host than models like Llama 405B. 

looks like this continues Mistral’s trend of smaller, specialized models.