

Mixtral is a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 8 experts per MLP, with a total of 45 billion parameters. To learn more about mixture-of-experts, refer to the blog post.
Despite the model having 45 billion parameters,, the compute required for a single forward pass is the same as that of a 14 billion parameter model. This is because even though each of the experts have to be loaded in RAM (70B like ram requirement) each token from the hidden states are dispatched twice (top 2 routing) and thus the compute (the operation required at each forward computation) is just 2 X sequence_length. 