Microsoft has partnered with the French startup Mistral AI to reduce its dependence on OpenAI for AI products.
This partnership aims to develop chatbots and other generative AI products.
The collaboration with Mistral AI could bring innovation and diversity to Microsoft’s AI offerings.
The move reflects Microsoft’s strategy to expand its AI capabilities through partnerships with emerging companies.
This partnership could lead to the development of advanced AI technologies beyond chatbots.
Mistral AI, a new company, is praised by Microsoft for being innovative in developing efficient and cost-effective AI systems despite being less than a year old.
Mistral released a public test version of its chatbot Le Chat. The chatbot aims to provide assistance and engage with users in a conversational manner.
The company introduced Mistral Large, claimed as powerful language model as GPT-4, Claude 2, and Gemini Pro. It’s accessible on Microsoft Azure.
For businesses, they are launching le Chat Enterprise with self-deployment capacities, and fine-grained moderation mechanisms (currently unavailable).
Access Mistral’s LLM’s directly at https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
References:
https://apnews.com/article/mistral-ai-lechat-microsoft-openai-cbd6f5604fa577a0d1e7f9047708b718
https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-mistral/