Pixtral 12B: Mistral beats Llama to Multimodality
Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B, an open-weights vision-language model with a Mistral Nemo 12B text backbone and a 400M vision adapter, featuring a large vocabulary of 131,072 tokens and support for 1024x1024 pixel images. This release notably beat Meta AI in launching an open multimodal model. At the Mistral AI Summit, architecture details and benchmark performances were shared, showing strong OCR and screen understanding capabilities. Additionally, Arcee AI announced SuperNova, a distilled Llama 3.1 70B & 8B model outperforming Meta's Llama 3.1 70B instruct on benchmarks. DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V2.5, scoring 89 on HumanEval, surpassing GPT-4-Turbo, Opus, and Llama 3.1 in coding tasks. OpenAI plans to release Strawberry as part of ChatGPT soon, though its capabilities are debated. Anthropic introduced Workspaces for managing multiple Claude deployments with enhanced access controls.