Mixtral 7x8b was way better than llama2 70b and used less RAM and compute at the same time. This model is way better than llama.

In fact I would go as far as saying llama2 isn’t that good compared to some of the most recent models.

We use their earlier Mixtral model because it outperforms llama for our use case. They do not release full models for marketing purposes, though it definitely grabs attention! You may need to revise your views..

It beats llama on the benchmark posted below (though maybe leaked into training data). But also you can run it on cheaper split up hardware with less individual vram than the big llama.

What makes it you think it's not as good as LLaMA? It's likely much better. There are multiple open-weight models that are better than LLaMA 2 out there already.