Microsoft has announced a piece of French artificial intelligence startup Mistral. According to him, a giant from Redmond made an investment (with a value that was not revealed) and managed to offer Mistral's models to customers of the new Azure computing platform.
On the other hand, the two companies will collaborate on the research and development of applications for European governments. Second, at Microsoft, the investment made was small and will not return to societal participation.
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said that the site Axios that Microsoft cannot “own” the AI market and will make a “big transition”, moving away from open code model developers.
Before that, a company invests 13 US dollars in OpenAI, developed by ChatGPT, which is dedicated to them for the proposed models. A parcel between two companies is sent survey on the European Union and the United Kingdom. Smith refuses that Microsoft controls OpenAI.
Mistral less than a year old and is available at US$ 2 bi
A Mistral is a large-scale language model (LLM) development startup. It was funded in May 2023 by Timothée Lacroix (ex-Meta), Guillaume Lampe (ex-Meta) and Arthur Mensch (ex-Google DeepMind).
After a young age, the company has received more than 500 million US dollars in investments and is available for more than 2 billion US dollars — the comparison title, OpenAI is available for 86 million US dollars. Today your main product is the Mistral Large model, available via API page.
The company says Mistral Large is up against Claude 2 (from Anthropic), Gemini Pro 1.0 (from Google), Llama 2 (from Meta) and GPT-3.5 (from OpenAI). In our enterprise tests, it is also based on GPT-4, as well as OpenAI. Unfortunately, there are no independent testicle results on the model either.
In addition, because of Microsoft, Mistral launched its assistant, which gave them a French name: cat. The chatbot is also in beta and free, in addition to the option of three models: Mistral Large, Mistral Small (which balances service and benefit) and Mistral Next (designed to be concise). Le Chat speaks English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and he also knows how to write code.
Information on: TechCrunch, Financial Times, Reuters, Axios
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