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Microsoft has signed a deal with French artificial intelligence startup Mistral, aiming to expand its involvement in the burgeoning industry beyond OpenAI.
The US technology giant has announced that the 10-month-old Paris-based company will A.I. Bring the model to market.
Microsoft also plans to make a small investment in Mistral, but financial details have not been disclosed. The partnership makes Mistral his second company to provide commercial language models available on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform.
Microsoft has already invested about $13 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI, but the partnership is currently being considered. competition watcher In the United States, european union And England.
Other Big Tech rivals such as Google and Amazon are also investing heavily in building generative AI (software that can generate text, images, and code in seconds), a capability that analysts say could shake up industries around the world. I believe there is.
Mistral builds large-scale language models, the underlying technology that powers our generative AI products. December valuation was 2 billion euros In a funding round worth around 400 million euros.
Its model is „open source“, meaning its technical details will be made public.
This contrasts with the approach of competitors such as ChatGPT maker OpenAI. OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4, is a so-called black box, where the data and code used to build the model are not available to third parties.
OpenAI was estimated to be worth $86 billion after a recent secondary stock sale.