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Mistral: Ministral 8B

mistralai/ministral-8b

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 and excels in knowledge and reasoning tasks. It outperforms peers in the sub-10B category, making it perfect for low-latency, privacy-first applications.

Modalities

Context

128K

Released

Oct 17, 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

Sep 2024

About Mistral: Ministral 8B

OpenRouter makes Mistral: Ministral 8B by Mistral AI available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID mistralai/ministral-8b.

Mistral: Ministral 8B accepts text and returns text. It has a 128,000-token context window.

It was released on October 17, 2024; its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2024.

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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 and excels in knowledge and reasoning tasks. It outperforms peers in the sub-10B category, making it perfect for low-latency, privacy-first applications.

Ministral 8B has a 128,000 token context window.

Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral Small 4, Ministral 3 14B 2512 and 15 more are other text models from Mistral AI.

Ministral 8B was released on October 17, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2024.