It’s no secret that Microsoft is all about AI. The company has invested heavily in his OpenAI and is adding artificial intelligence to various products and services, including the introduction of his Copilot to Windows 11.
But investing billions in OpenAI doesn’t mean Microsoft is ignoring other players in the AI game. The tech giant is also currently investing heavily in French startup Mistral AI.
The multi-year partnership aims to accelerate AI innovation and debut Mistral Large on Microsoft Azure. The company’s flagship commercial model, Mistral Large, is a code- and math-savvy general-purpose language model that can process dozens of documents in a single call. In addition to English, it also supports French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Microsoft’s interest is easy to understand, since according to commonly used benchmarks it ranks second in the world after GPT-4 as a publicly available model through its API. .
Opportunities abound
The partnership between the two companies focuses on three core areas: supercomputing infrastructure, market expansion, and AI research and development. Microsoft provides Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure that delivers the highest levels of performance for Mistral AI’s flagship model AI training and inference workloads.
In addition, customers will have access to Mistral AI’s premium models through Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning Model Catalog Models as a Service (MaaS). This, combined with Azure’s AI-optimized infrastructure and enterprise-grade capabilities, provides Mistral AI with additional opportunities to promote, sell, and distribute its models to his Microsoft customers around the world. .
“We are excited to embark on this partnership with Microsoft. Azure’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure will enable us to expand to drive innovative research and practical applications to new customers everywhere. We are reaching new milestones, said Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI.
