Following Meta’s move just yesterday to launch its new open-source Llama 3.1 as a highly competitive alternative to leading closed-source “frontier” models, French AI startup Mistral has announced the next generation of its flagship open-source model with 123 billion parameters: Mistral Large 2. Currently, the company is providing access to Mistral Large 2 through its API endpoint platform as well as via cloud platforms such as Google Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Studio and IBM WatsonX.