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Jul 17, 2024

Mistral releases Codestral Mamba 7B, Mathstral 7B, claimed to be best small open models for coding, STEM

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  1. Mistral releases Codestral Mamba 7B, Mathstral 7B
  2. SpaceX, X moving headquarters from CA to TX
  3. Andreessen, Horowitz endorse Trump, announce donations
  4. ASML’s sales -10% YoY to €6.2B in Q2
  5. Streaming reaches record 40.3% of TV time, YouTube, Netflix lead

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1. Mistral releases Codestral Mamba 7B, Mathstral 7B, claimed to be best small open models for coding, STEM

Codestral Mamba 7B uses the Mamba architecture, rather than Transformers, and has a context length of 256K:

Mistral.

  • TBD: independent benchmarks.

Mathstral does particularly well on the MATH benchmark, but its broader MMLU is only 63% (vs. 68% for Microsoft’s Phi-3 Mini 4B):

Mistral.

2. SpaceX, X moving headquarters from CA to TX

X: Elon Musk.

  • X: moving to Austin from San Francisco.

  • SpaceX: to Starbase from Hawthorne.

3. Andreessen, Horowitz endorse Trump, announce donations

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5. ASML’s sales -10% YoY to €6.2B in Q2, net bookings +24% to €5.6B

ASML’s U.S. GAAP statements.

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