llama-3-70b-instruct vs open-mixtral-8x22b

meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct is an instruction-tuned language model from Meta’s Llama 3 family, designed for assistant-like dialogue and general natural language generation tasks. It leverages supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to align with human preferences. With 70B parameters, it offers strong performance and is suitable for commercial and research use cases.

Mixtral 8x22B is Mistral AI's latest open, sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) model that uses only 39B active parameters out of 141B for unparalleled cost efficiency. It features a 64K tokens context window, strong capabilities in mathematics and coding, and native function calling, while also being fluent in multiple European languages.