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Ministral 8B

by MistralReleased 17 October 2024

Ministral 8B is an 8B parameter model featuring a unique interleaved sliding-window attention pattern for faster, memory-efficient inference. Designed for edge use cases, it supports up to 128k context length...

TakesText
GivesText

Reads about 120 pages · writes up to 100 pages

Parameters you can send

Standard OpenAI fields, grouped by what they control. Anything not listed is accepted and ignored.

Shaping the reply

How long, how varied, where to stop.

max_tokenstemperaturetop_pstopseedfrequency_penaltypresence_penalty

Structured output

Get JSON you can parse instead of prose.

response_formatstructured_outputs

Questions about Ministral 8B

  • Is Ministral 8B still on sale?

    No. Mistral has retired it. Other Mistral models are on sale.

  • What is Ministral 8B best for?

    The lab has not said.

  • Does Ministral 8B work in Arabic, French or Darja?

    Mistral names no languages for Ministral 8B. Arabic, French and Darja: not stated.

  • Can it read PDFs, images or a whole book?

    It reads text. Up to 128K tokens in one request, about 120 pages. It writes up to 77 000 words at once.

  • Is Ministral 8B open source?

    No. Mistral has not published its weights.

  • Who makes Ministral 8B, and when was it released?

    Mistral. Released 17 October 2024. It knows the world up to 30 September 2024.

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