From Gizmodo Media Group:

Microsoft announced a partnership with Mistral AI, a French startup with advanced large language models. Mistral released Mistral Large and “le Chat,” a chat interface. Mistral’s models will be available on certain Microsoft Azure services, competing with OpenAI.

Mistral’s proprietary models, Mistral Large and Small, outperform open-sourced models. Mistral aims to bring open-source models to Azure alongside its proprietary models. The partnership with Microsoft positions Mistral as a strong competitor to OpenAI in the AI space.

Microsoft’s investment in Mistral is seen as a strategic move against OpenAI. Mistral’s rollout of new products, such as “le Chat Enterprise,” mirrors OpenAI’s approach. The transition from being an open-source startup to a closed partner of a cloud provider is a common trend in the AI industry.



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