Did they release the source code or benchmarks for their new 8x model?
But the point of releasing on bittorrent is to see the effervescence in hobbyist research and early attempts at MoE quantization, which are already ongoing[3]. They are benefitting from the community.
[0]: https://twitter.com/espadrine/status/1733505332293288256
[1]: https://github.com/dzhulgakov/llama-mistral
[2]: https://huggingface.co/DiscoResearch/mixtral-7b-8expert
[3]: https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes/tree/sparse_moe
https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-bucks-release-trend-by...
But it's still early and I guess that they kept just enough mystery to kickstart the conversation around this new model!