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BioMistral-7B is an open-weights language model from BioMistral, released February 2024. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo BioMistral/BioMistral-7B @9a11e1f: licence tag apache-2.0. Released 2024-02: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2024-02-14).

38.0±3.3#566 of 719 LLMsfrom 3 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of BioMistral-7B, out of 828 with a score.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
657Granite 3B Code Instruct (2K) IBM38±2local~3.7GB2024-04
658DeepSeek-V2 Lite Chat (16B-A2.4B) DeepSeek38±1local~11GB2024-05
659BioMistral-7B BioMistral38±3local~6.1GB2024-02
660Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba38±1local~2GB2026-03
661Code Tulu 2 7B Allen Institute for AI38±2local~16GB2023-11

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$ what it's good at

other tests3 not in a task · 95% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BRIDGE clinical text, zero-shot average (87 tasks)20.4% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▂▃▄▆█▃ beats 12/97hard · avg 32%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%blunt
Polish medical board exams, bias-mitigated MCQ protocol (7-exam average)30.6% ✎▄·▂▂▂··█▂▄·▄ beats 1/13hard · avg 48%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%typical
SurgiQ surgical MCQ (zero-shot, log-probability scoring)47.1% ✎▂···▂▂·▃▃▃██ beats 5/17medium · avg 53%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%typical

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run BioMistral-7B · needs ~4.4 GB · from huggingface.co/BioMistral (official)
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf BioMistral/BioMistral-7B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf BioMistral/BioMistral-7B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run BioMistral-7B · needs ~4.4 GB · from huggingface.co/BioMistral (official)

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/BioMistral/BioMistral-7B-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run BioMistral-7B · needs ~4.4 GB · from huggingface.co/BioMistral (official)
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/BioMistral/BioMistral-7B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~14.48 GB · from huggingface.co/BioMistral (official)
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='BioMistral/BioMistral-7B', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto')('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/BioMistral ↗

$ how the score was worked out · BRIDGE Medical Leaderboard (H… 39%, Reassessing High-Performing L… 39%, SurgiQ: A Large-Scale Multi-D… 17%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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