Microsoft, a Redmond-headquartered tech giant, has been in the news for its AI efforts across its product line. In the latest move, the company is now joining hands with Mistral, a French AI startup, to introduce its AI models in the tech giant’s Azure cloud computing service.
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The multi-year partnership hints that the company may plan to introduce diverse AI models in the cloud computing space.
As a part of the new partnership, the AI company will take a minor stake in Mistral. According to Microsoft, the partnership will help Mistral AI access the platform’s AI infrastructure for the development of next-gen large language models (LLM). The Windows maker will offer “AI training and inference workloads” for Mistral’s flagship models.
Moreover, “Microsoft and Mistral AI will make Mistral AI’s premium models available to customers through the Models as a Service (MaaS) in the Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning model catalog,” the tech giant said. These will be in addition to the models of ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Both firms will also train purpose-specific models for customers.
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The company also announced the availability of the Mistral Large, the flagship commercial AI model of Mistral, on Azure AI and Mistral first. It is a “general-purpose language model that can deliver on any text-based use case thanks to state-of-the-art reasoning and knowledge capabilities.” It can code, solve maths queries, process multiple documents at once, and support English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian languages.
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The flagship model reportedly aims to rival powerful LLMs like GPT-4. “Mistral Large achieves strong results on commonly used benchmarks, making it the world’s second-ranked model generally available through an API (next to GPT-4),” Mistral AI said. Valued at roughly $2.1 billion, this is significantly less than the $10 billion partnership with OpenAI, according to Financial Times.
