随着各方围绕高端人工智能获取权的紧张局势加剧，法国公司 Mistral 发布了一款全新的免费开源模型，并声称其能够与美国和中国的顶尖模型相媲美。
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China.
这款拥有 1 万亿参数的新模型名为 Mistral Large 4（昵称 Le Chonk），可供任何人使用和定制。目前该模型处于预览版阶段，最终版本预计将于本月底推出。尽管 Le Chonk 旨在与领先的通用模型竞争，但它专门针对编程、网络防御以及制造、金融、电气工程和其他垂直领域的特定任务进行了优化。
The new 1 trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—can be used and customized by anyone. It’s currently available in preview, with a final version to follow by the end of the month. Though Le Chonk is built to compete with leading general-purpose models, it’s optimized specifically for coding and cyberdefense, as well as tasks particular to manufacturing, finance, electrical engineering, and other niches.
Mistral 的联合创始人兼首席科学家吉 Guillaume Lample 在接受《连线》杂志采访时表示：“其他实验室不会过多关注很多领域。有太多领域你可以用来改进模型。”
“There are a lot of areas where the other labs will not focus that much,” Guillaume Lample, cofounder and chief scientist at Mistral, tells WIRED. “There are so many domains in which you can improve models.”