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Mistral AI and NVIDIA have unveiled a cutting-edge enterprise AI model, Mistral NeMo 12B, that offers unprecedented accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency for diverse applications like chatbots, multilingual tasks, coding, and summarization.

Key features and capabilities: Mistral NeMo 12B excels in multi-turn conversations, math, common sense reasoning, world knowledge, and coding, delivering precise and reliable performance across various tasks:

  • With a 128K context length, the model can process extensive and complex information more coherently and accurately, ensuring contextually relevant outputs.
  • The model uses the FP8 data format for inference, reducing memory size and speeding up deployment without sacrificing accuracy.
  • Mistral NeMo comes packaged as an NVIDIA NIM inference microservice, enabling easy deployment anywhere and providing enhanced flexibility for various applications.

Collaborative development and optimization: The combined expertise of Mistral AI and NVIDIA engineers has optimized the training and inference of Mistral NeMo:

  • The model was trained using Mistral AI’s expertise in multilinguality, code, and multi-turn content, while benefiting from accelerated training on NVIDIA’s full stack.
  • Megatron-LM, part of NVIDIA NeMo, was used with 3,072 H100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs on DGX Cloud to increase training efficiency through model parallelism techniques, scalability, and mixed precision.

Enterprise-grade support and deployment: Mistral NeMo offers enterprise-grade software, support, and easy deployment options:

  • The model is released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing seamless integration into commercial applications.
  • It is designed to fit on the memory of a single NVIDIA L40S, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, or NVIDIA RTX 4500 GPU, offering high efficiency, low compute cost, and enhanced security and privacy.
  • Comprehensive support, direct access to NVIDIA AI experts, and defined service-level agreements ensure reliable and consistent performance.

Broader implications: Mistral NeMo 12B’s ability to process and generate highly accurate content across various tasks opens up new opportunities for companies to leverage AI in their applications. The collaboration between Mistral AI and NVIDIA highlights the importance of combining expertise in training data, hardware, and software to develop cutting-edge AI models that can revolutionize enterprise applications. As the model becomes more widely available through NVIDIA’s AI platform, it has the potential to accelerate the adoption of advanced AI capabilities across industries.

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