Microsoft hasannounceda new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that’s valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 billion).TheFinancial Timesreportsthat the partnership will include Microsoft taking a minor stake in the 10-month-old AI company, just a little over a year after Micr...
This partnership with Microsoft enables Mistral AI with access toAzure’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure, to accelerate the development and deployment of their next generation large language models (LLMs) and represents an opportunity for Mistral AI to ...
Last week, Microsoft and Mistral AI announced amulti-year partnership. The details of the agreement are unclear. From what we know, Mistral gets access to “Azure’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure” to develop and train its latest models. But more importantly, Mistral will be able to reach M...
The European Union is looking into Microsoft’s partnership with French startup Mistral AI as part of its broader review of the booming generative artificial intelligence sector to see if it raises any competition concerns. The 27-nation bloc’s executive commission said Tuesday in a brief statemen...
"What we're fundamentally agreeing to a long-term partnership with Mistral AI so that they can train and deploy their next generation models for AI on our AI data centres, our infrastructure, effective immediately," he added. Growing scrutiny ...
^https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure/ ^https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1762217391633952953?s=20 ^https://web.archive.org/web/20240216052251/https://mistral.ai/company/ ...
The addition of Mistral to Azure could bring more options to customers. For Microsoft, this could be a strategic move to beat the competition in the AI space.
"Not having these ... models natively on its platform was clearly a handicap for Microsoft, which they're now trying to address with the partnership and investment in Mistral," Chandrasekaran added. And the new partnership reflects Microsoft's desire to ensure rivals don't overtake the momentu...
"The CMA is also considering feedback received earlier this year on Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI and is currently waiting for information it has requested from the firms," it said on Wednesday. It said the move to examine the Microsoft-Mistral AI and Amazon-Anthro...
And, with Models as a service, we provide API access to third-party models, including the latest from Cohere, Meta, and Mistral. In total, we have over 60,000 Azure AI customers, up nearly 60 percent year-over-year. This year, we also announced a partnership with G42, which will ...