Use Mistral AI to build generative AI applications with Go

Learn how to use Mistral AI on Amazon Bedrock with AWS SDK for Go

Mistral AI offers models with varying characteristics across performance, cost, and more:

• Mistral 7B - The first dense model released by Mistral AI, perfect for experimentation, customization, and quick iteration.
• Mixtral 8x7B - A sparse mixture of experts model.
• Mistral Large - ideal for complex tasks that require large reasoning capabilities or are highly specialized (Synthetic Text Generation, Code Generation, RAG, or Agents).

Let's walk through how to use these Mistral AI models on Amazon Bedrock with Go, and in the process, also get a better understanding of it's prompt tokens.

Getting started with Mistral AI

Lets start off with a simple example using Mistral 7B.

Refer to **Before You Begin* section in this blog post to complete the prerequisites for running the examples. This includes installing Go, configuring Amazon Bedrock access and providing necessary IAM permissions.*

You can refer to the complete code here

To run the example:

git clone https://github.com/abhirockzz/mistral-bedrock-go
cd mistral-bedrock-go

go run basic/main.go

The response may (or may not) be slightly different in your case:

request payload:
 {"prompt":"\u003cs\u003e[INST] Hello, what's your name? [/INST]"}
response payload:
 {"outputs":[{"text":" Hello! I don't have a name. I'm just an artificial intelligence designed to help answer questions and provide information. How can I assist you today?","stop_reason":"stop"}]}
response string:
  Hello! I don't have a name. I'm just an artificial intelligence designed to help answer questions and provide information. How can I assist you today?

You can refer to the complete code here.

We start by creating the JSON payload - it's modeled as a struct (MistralRequest). Also, notice the model ID mistral.mistral-7b-instruct-v0:2

const modelID7BInstruct = "mistral.mistral-7b-instruct-v0:2"
const promptFormat = "<s>[INST] %s [/INST]"

func main() {
    msg := "Hello, what's your name?"

    payload := MistralRequest{
        Prompt: fmt.Sprintf(promptFormat, msg),
    }
//...

Mistral has a specific prompt format, where:

• <s> refers to the beginning of string token
• text for the user role is inside the [INST]...[/INST] tokens
• text outside is the assistant role

In the output logs above, see how the <s> token is interpreted

Here is the MistralRequest struct that has the required attributes:

type MistralRequest struct {
    Prompt        string   `json:"prompt"`
    MaxTokens     int      `json:"max_tokens,omitempty"`
    Temperature   float64  `json:"temperature,omitempty"`
    TopP          float64  `json:"top_p,omitempty"`
    TopK          int      `json:"top_k,omitempty"`
    StopSequences []string `json:"stop,omitempty"`
}

InvokeModel is used to call the model. The JSON response is converted to a struct (MistralResponse) and the text response is extracted from it.

    output, err := brc.InvokeModel(context.Background(), &bedrockruntime.InvokeModelInput{
        Body:        payloadBytes,
        ModelId:     aws.String(modelID7BInstruct),
        ContentType: aws.String("application/json"),
    })

    var resp MistralResponse

    err = json.Unmarshal(output.Body, &resp)

    fmt.Println("response string:\n", resp.Outputs[0].Text)

Chat example

Moving on to a simple conversational interaction. This is what Mistral refers to as a multi-turn prompt and we will add the </s> which is the end of string token.

To run the example:

go run chat/main.go

Here is my interaction:

You can refer to the complete code here

The code itself is overly simplified for the purposes of this example. But, important part is the how the tokens are used to format the prompt. Note that we are using Mixtral 8X7B (mistral.mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0:1) in this example.

const userMessageFormat = "[INST] %s [/INST]"
const modelID8X7BInstruct = "mistral.mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0:1"
const bos = "<s>" 
const eos = "</s>"

var verbose *bool

func main() {
    reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)

    first := true
    var msg string

    for {
        fmt.Print("\nEnter your message: ")

        input, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
        input = strings.TrimSpace(input)

        if first {
            msg = bos + fmt.Sprintf(userMessageFormat, input)
        } else {
            msg = msg + fmt.Sprintf(userMessageFormat, input)
        }

        payload := MistralRequest{
            Prompt: msg,
        }

        response, err := send(payload)

        fmt.Println("[Assistant]:", response)

        msg = msg + response + eos + " "

        first = false
    }
}

The beginning of string (bos) token is only needed once at the start of the conversation, while eos (end of string) marks the end of a single conversation exchange (user and assistant).

Chat with streaming

If you've read my previous blogs, I always like to include a "streaming" example because:

1. It provides a better experience from a client application point of view
2. It's a common mistake to overlook the InvokeModelWithResponseStream function (the async counterpart of InvokeModel)
3. The partial model payload response can be interesting (and tricky at times)

You can refer to the complete code here

Lets try this out. This example uses Mistral Large - simply change the model ID to mistral.mistral-large-2402-v1:0. To run the example:

go run chat-streaming/main.go

Notice the usage of InvokeModelWithResponseStream (instead of Invoke):

    output, err := brc.InvokeModelWithResponseStream(context.Background(), &bedrockruntime.InvokeModelWithResponseStreamInput{
        Body:        payloadBytes,
        ModelId:     aws.String(modelID7BInstruct),
        ContentType: aws.String("application/json"),
    })
    //...

To process it's output, we use:

    //...
    resp, err := processStreamingOutput(output, func(ctx context.Context, part []byte) error {
        fmt.Print(string(part))
        return nil
    })

Here are a few bits from the processStreamingOutput function - you can check the code here. The important thing to understand is how the partial responses are collected together to produce the final output (MistralResponse).

func processStreamingOutput(output *bedrockruntime.InvokeModelWithResponseStreamOutput, handler StreamingOutputHandler) (MistralResponse, error) {

    var combinedResult string

    resp := MistralResponse{}
    op := Outputs{}

    for event := range output.GetStream().Events() {
        switch v := event.(type) {
        case *types.ResponseStreamMemberChunk:

            var pr MistralResponse

            err := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(v.Value.Bytes)).Decode(&pr)
            if err != nil {
                return resp, err
            }

            handler(context.Background(), []byte(pr.Outputs[0].Text))

            combinedResult += pr.Outputs[0].Text
            op.StopReason = pr.Outputs[0].StopReason
    //...
    }

    op.Text = combinedResult
    resp.Outputs = []Outputs{op}

    return resp, nil
}

Conclusion

Remember - building AI/ML applications using Large Language Models (like Mistral, Meta Llama, Claude, etc.) does not imply that you have to use Python. Managed platforms like Amazon Bedrock provide access to these powerful models using flexible APIs in a variety of programming languages, including Go! Thanks to AWS SDK support, you can use the programming language of your choice to integrate with Amazon Bedrock, and build generative AI solutions.

You can learn more by exploring the official Mistral documentation as well the Amazon Bedrock user guide. Happy building!