Microsoft Announce New partnership with Mistral AI announced on Monday French startups Its advanced large language model works with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and microsoft copilot.Mistral also posted Mistral Lthe most advanced language model to date, and “cat”, a chat interface built on the Mistral model.
The multi-year partnership marks Mistral’s move into the mainstream, Shocking the AI world with its world-leading technical capabilities. Mistral Large ranks second in the ranking of artificial intelligence models for common sense and reasoning capabilities, also known as massive multi-task language understanding (MMLU), behind only GPT-4. Mistral’s models will be available on certain Microsoft Azure services along with OpenAI’s models.
According to reports, Mistral’s new models Mistral Large and Mistral Small are proprietary and not open source like previous models. Manual analysis. Mistral’s new models are all superior to Mixtral-8x7B, an older open source model that is seen as a promising development in the open source community. Prior to Mixtral-8x7b, open source models had struggled to keep up with proprietary models such as Claude-2, Gemini-Ultra, and ChatGPT-4. Mistral said it will also bring open source models to Azure.
Microsoft’s investment in Mistral could be seen as a hedge against OpenAI, although Microsoft wouldn’t describe it that way. So far, OpenAI is the only artificial intelligence startup Microsoft has worked with in depth.CEO Satya Nadella has $13 billion invested in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, offering the startup’s technology in several key Microsoft products.this Relationship draws regulatory attention back After OpenAI board fired Sam Altman, Microsoft immediately hired him. Starting today, OpenAI will share space on Azure servers.
Mistral’s new product appears to follow OpenAI’s strategy. Le Chat is a ChatGPT-like service that runs on Mistral Large and Mistral Small. Mistral also launched le Chat Enterprise, a product similar to ChatGPT Enterprise that aims to provide artificial intelligence solutions to European enterprises. Not to mention, Mistral seems to be “turning off” its best models and no longer making them open source.
The route from a promising open source AI startup to a closed partner with a major cloud provider is all too familiar. OpenAI quickly shut down its model Before working with Microsoft.Company owned Criticized by Elon Musk and others for no longer being “open” or “non-profit.”
When it comes time to monetize AI models, most tech companies choose to stop open-sourcing their models. It’s unclear whether this is for security reasons or to protect intellectual property, but it’s a worrying trend for the open source AI community.