WizardLM-2 8x22B is Microsoft AI's most advanced Wizard model, demonstrating highly competitive performance compared to leading proprietary models and consistently outperforming state-of-the-art open-source models. It is an instruct finetune of Mixtral 8x22B and is optimized for complex reasoning and instruction-following tasks. For more information, see the [official release](https://wizardlm.github.io/WizardLM2/).