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

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.

The Llama 3-8B-Instruct model is an 8B-parameter LLM optimized for dialogue and instruction-following. It leverages supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback to align with helpfulness and safety standards. The model demonstrates strong text and code generation, along with improved reasoning and steerability.