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Microsoft just bought off Mistral into no longer releasing open weights and scrubbing all references to them from their site…?

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There's a "Download" button for their open models literally two clicks away from the homepage.

Click "Learn more" under the big "Committing to open models" heading on the homepage. Then, because their deeplinking is bad, click "Open" in the toggle at the top. There's your download link.

See “no longer” in my original comment. They just announced their new slate of models, none of which are open weights. The models linked to download are the “before Microsoft $$$, Azure deal, and free supercomputers” ones.

This is Linux all over again, Microsoft is going to use every trick and dollar they have to fight open source.

/I'm too old to fight that battle again...

Sure, but they clearly haven't "scrubbed all references" of their open weights from their site.

Sorry, they’ve just scrubbed most of the references and otherwise edited their site to downplay any commitment to open source, post-Microsoft investment.

Which is Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B. Mistral Large belongs to the closed source optimized models.

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