Microsoft focuses on Europe. Following its investment of more than 13,000 million dollars (around 11,975 million euros) in OpenAI, the inventor of ChatGPT, the technology company has announced a multi-year contract with the French startup Mistral AI, with the goal cooperate in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerate growth in this sector.
Specifically, as both companies explained in a joint statement, the agreement will allow Mistral to offer its model Mistral Large From AI to cloud computing platform azure blue, from Microsoft – in which ChatGPT is already present – with which you can “Accelerate the development and deployment of the next generation of large language models (LLM)«.
«We are pleased to enter into this partnership with Microsoft. With Azure’s state-of-the-art AI infrastructure, we are reaching a new milestone in our expansion and bringing our innovative research and practical applications to new customers around the world. Together, we are committed to driving impactful advances in the AI industry and delivering unparalleled value to our customers and partners around the world.“, Has expressed Arthur human, CEO of Mistral AI.
The French company will use the Azure AI computing infrastructure to train models and offer them via the Azure Studio and Azure Machine Learning catalog. Additionally, Microsoft and Mistral AI will also explore collaboration on certain training models for selected customers, including the European public sector.
Le Chat, the Mistral IA chatbot
The French startup also announced this almost at the same time Start your own chatbot, Le Chat, in an obvious reference to ChatGPT. For now, Mistral AI has detailed that it is a betato clarify that “there could be special features«.
Access to the service is free (for now) and users can choose between three different models: Mistral Small, Large either Next. However, the company also plans to introduce a paid version of the chatbot for corporate customers.
Mistral AI was founded in 2023 by researchers from Google DeepMind and Metaand is based in Paris. The company has quickly become one of the highest valued AI companies in the world. According to the French newspaper The Figarois currently worth around $2,000 million (1,842.9 million euros).
