Less than a year after its founding, Paris-based Mistral is launching Mistral Large, a new AI flagship model for developers. Just a few months after the release of the first model, Mistral 7B.
Like its predecessor, Mistral Large is an open source generative AI model. The startup says he has “top-level” reasoning skills and is proficient in code and mathematics. He is also multilingual and can speak 5 languages fluently (English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian).
“This is an important milestone for us as the unparalleled performance of this multilingual model further pushes the boundaries of what is possible with frontier AI,” said Arthur Mesch, co-founder and CEO of the company. Masu.
The startup has also partnered with Microsoft to release models on the tech giant’s Azure AI platform, and is now Mistral’s first reseller partner. With this partnership, the company becomes his second company to launch a commercial language model on Azure, following his OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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Microsoft will help bring Mistral’s AI models to market and will take a small (private) stake in the startup. Financial Times coverage.
Meanwhile, Mistral is also launching a multilingual conversation assistant. The tool, called “Le Chat” (French for “cat”), enables conversational interfaces with the company’s AI models. Today, Le Chat begins beta access for early customers and will soon be available to enterprise users.
This young startup has seen tremendous growth so far. In June of last year, raised EUR105 minutes The largest seed round in European history, in December reached EURAppraisal value 2 billionensure EURThe investment amount is 450 million yen. Mistral is also one of the major players in Europe offering an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, along with Germany’s Aleph Alpha and Helsinki-based Silo AI.
