How to run Mistral 7B with an API

Mistral 7B is a new open-source language model from Mistral AI that stands out for its superior performance compared to other 7 billion parameter models and even surpasses larger models like Llama 2 13B and occasionally Llama 34B. The model is particularly effective in coding tasks, approaching the performance of CodeLlama 7B, and features a variant called Mistral 7B Instruct, fine-tuned for chat completions. Mistral 7B is noted for its speed, leveraging grouped-query and sliding window attention to enhance inference speed and memory efficiency. Despite its strengths, it is prone to hallucination, a common trait in language models. The model is accessible on Replicate, allowing users to run it in the cloud using various programming languages like JavaScript and Python, and is also available via an HTTP API. The blog post also mentions community efforts in fine-tuning Mistral 7B for specific datasets, such as the Open Orca dataset for chat, and highlights a site called LLM Boxing for comparing Mistral with other models like Llama, where Mistral 7B Instruct is currently outperforming Llama 2 13B Chat.