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216 points veggieroll | 6 comments | 16 Oct 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.058s | source | bottom
1. zurfer ◴[16 Oct 24 14:50 UTC] No.41859722[source]▶
poor title, Mistral released new open weight models that win across benchmarks in their weight class: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B
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2. scjody ◴[16 Oct 24 15:49 UTC] No.41860501[source]▶
Are they really open weights? Ministral 3B is "Mistral Commercial License".
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3. leetharris ◴[16 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41860634[source]▶
Yeah the 3B are NOT open. The 8B are as they can be used under commercial license.
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4. diggan ◴[16 Oct 24 16:55 UTC] No.41861262{3}[source]▶
"commercial license != open", by most standards
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5. zurfer ◴[16 Oct 24 17:56 UTC] No.41861820{4}[source]▶
too late to edit now. I was completely wrong about open-weights.

The meme at the bottom made me jump to that conclusion. Well, not that exciting of a release then. :(

6. DreamGen ◴[16 Oct 24 20:10 UTC] No.41863330[source]▶
That would be misleading. They aren't open weight (3B is not available). They aren't compared to Qwen 2.5 which beats them in many of the benchmarks presented while having more permissive license. The closed 3B is not competitive with other API only models, like Gemini Flash 8B which costs less and has better performance.