Inside the Technical Bar: MoE, Efficiency, Open Licensing and the LLM Quiz

Mistral's architecture choices — mixture-of-experts from Mixtral to the 1T/52B-active Le Chonk, efficiency as identity, Apache 2.0 licensing, vLLM-based inference — and the transformer fundamentals candidates report being quizzed on (MHA vs GQA, KV cache, implement MHSA, fix a transformer bug). A study map for the technical rounds.