Microsoft Announces Multi-Year Partnership with Mistral AI

Microsoft integrates the Mistral model into the Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning accessible Azure AI model catalog, providing advanced open-source models for Microsoft customers to create and deploy custom AI applications.

Microsoft announces a multi-year partnership with Mistral AI

Microsoft and Mistral AI have announced a multi-year partnership aimed at accelerating AI innovation and unlocking new business opportunities. This collaboration brings together two giants in the field of artificial intelligence, both committed to nurturing the open-source community, achieving exceptional performance, and developing trustworthy, scalable, and responsible AI solutions.

Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch expressed excitement about this partnership, stating, "We are thrilled to partner with Microsoft. With Azure's cutting-edge AI infrastructure, our expansion is reaching a new milestone, bringing our innovative research and practical applications to new customers worldwide."

This partnership focuses on three core areas. Firstly, Microsoft will support Mistral AI with Azure's AI supercomputing infrastructure, providing top-notch AI training and inference workload performance and scalability for Mistral AI's flagship models. Secondly, Microsoft and Mistral AI will offer Mistral AI's advanced models to customers through Model as a Service (MaaS) in Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning Model Catalog. Lastly, the two companies will explore collaboration on training programs for specific customers, including workloads in the European public sector.

Mistral announces Le Chat and Mistral Large

Mistral Large performs exceptionally well in inference, knowledge, coding, mathematics, and cross-language understanding tests, second only to OpenAI's GPT-4.

Microsoft also announced the launch of Mistral AI's flagship commercial model, Mistral Large, on the Azure AI and Mistral AI platforms. Mistral Large is a general-purpose language model that can cater to any text-based use case due to its state-of-the-art inference and knowledge capabilities. It excels in code and mathematics and can process dozens of documents in a single call, handling not only English but also French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

The integration of the Mistral model into the Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning accessible Azure AI model catalog provides Microsoft customers with a variety of cutting-edge open-source models for creating and deploying custom AI applications.