Microsoft has made its AI models available on Azure with OpenAI’s French rival Mistral

Microsoft French will create startups. Mistral AI’s The artificial intelligence models are available through its Azure cloud computing platform under a new partnership, the companies said Monday.

The multi-year deal signals Microsoft’s efforts to diversify its offerings. A.I OpenAI has models ahead of its biggest bet as the tech giant looks to attract more customers to its Azure cloud services.

Microsoft will take a minority stake in Mistral as part of the deal, the startup told Reuters without disclosing details.

Microsoft confirmed its investment in Mistral, but said it has no equity in the company. The tech giant is under regulatory scrutiny for its external funding in Europe and the US Open AI.

The Paris-based startup works on open source and proprietary Large Language Models (LLM), as pioneered with OpenAI. Chat GPTwhich understands and processes text in a human-like manner.

Its latest proprietary model, the Mistral Large, will be available to Azure customers first under the partnership. Mistral’s technology will be hosted on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.

Also worked with Mistral. Amazon And Google To distribute its models. It plans to make Mistral Large available on other cloud platforms in the next few months, a spokesperson said.

Mistral was founded by Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lample, who worked previously. of meta artificial intelligence teams; and Arthur Mensch, former Google DeepMind researcher.

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