12/15/2023: Mixtral-Instruct beats Gemini Pro (and matches GPT3.5)

Thanks to a **karpathy** shoutout, **lmsys** now has enough data to rank **mixtral** and **gemini pro**. The discussion highlights the impressive performance of these state-of-the-art open-source models that can run on laptops. In the **openai** Discord, users compared AI tools like **perplexity** and **chatgpt's browsing tool**, favoring Perplexity for its superior data gathering, pricing, and usage limits. Interest was shown in AI's ability to convert large code files with **deepseek coder** recommended. Debates on privacy implications for AI advancement and challenges of running LLMs on local and cloud GPUs were prominent. Users reported issues with **chatgpt** including performance problems, loss of access to custom GPTs, and unauthorized access. Discussions also covered prompt engineering for large context windows and speculations about **gpt-4.5** and **gpt-4** future developments.