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French startup Mistral AI vows to maintain open source
Economic Times
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1y ago
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French AI startup Mistral AI has pledged to maintain open-source coding principles as it enters into a partnership with Microsoft to sell its software. The move comes amidst Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company violated its non-profit mission. Mistral AI's head of public affairs emphasized the importance of open-source in building a European AI ecosystem. Although Mistral AI is selling its software through Microsoft, the company remains committed to open source and aims to use commercial activity to fund further research and development.
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French AI startup Mistral AI raises 385 million euros
Economic Times
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1y ago
Medial
French AI startup Mistral AI has raised 385 million euros ($414 million), making it one of Europe's top AI companies. This latest funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, values Mistral at 2 billion euros, making it a French tech unicorn. Mistral offers open-source language models fed by public data, similar to competitors like OpenAI. Backed by American tech giants including Salesforce and Nvidia, Mistral is seen as a potential rival to ChatGPT. The emergence of European AI players coincides with the EU's efforts to regulate the sector while fostering innovation.
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Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model | TechCrunch
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1d ago
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French AI startup Mistral has launched Voxtral, an open-source AI audio model aimed at businesses, providing an affordable alternative to closed systems. Voxtral can transcribe up to 30 minutes of audio and supports multiple languages including English, Spanish, and French. It offers two variants: Voxtral Small for large deployments and Voxtral Mini for local use. The API is available on Hugging Face, priced at $0.001 per minute, promoting open-source AI model accessibility and reducing costs.
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Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code | TechCrunch
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1m ago
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French AI startup Mistral has introduced Mistral Code, a "vibe coding" client to rival platforms like GitHub Copilot. This AI-driven coding assistant, based on the open-source project Continue, combines various Mistral models and offers an integrated platform for enterprise developers. Supporting over 80 programming languages, it provides features from code completions to multi-step refactoring. Companies like Capgemini are already using it. The tool aims to enhance coding productivity and is available in private beta.
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Microsoft partners with OpenAI's French rival Mistral
Economic Times
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1y ago
Medial
Microsoft and French startup Mistral AI have entered into a partnership to make Mistral AI's AI models available on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. The deal signifies Microsoft's efforts to expand its offerings in the AI space and attract more customers to Azure. As part of the collaboration, Microsoft will also take a minority stake in Mistral AI. Mistral AI, based in Paris, focuses on developing open source and proprietary large language models (LLMs) similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Azure customers will have access to Mistral's AI models, with plans to expand to other cloud platforms in the future.
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Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone
TechCrunch
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1y ago
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French AI startup, Mistral, has released its first language model, Mistral 7B, which it claims outperforms others in its size. The model is available for free download and use, without any restrictions, under the Apache 2.0 license. Mistral aims to support the open generative AI community and bring open models to state-of-the-art performance. While the model is free, Mistral also offers a paid commercial offering, providing white-box solutions with access to weights and code sources.
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Mistral just dumps AI model that beats GPT-3.5 into a torrent link
Gizmodo
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1y ago
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French AI startup Mistral has released its latest large language model, Mixtral-8x7B, with a carefree approach by sharing a nondescript Torrent link. The company followed up with a blog post, revealing benchmarks that showed Mistral's algorithm outperforms Meta's Llama 2 family and OpenAI's GPT-3.5. The open-source nature of Mistral's algorithm has also attracted attention, as the company aims to adopt an open and responsible approach to technology.
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Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI
The Verge
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1y ago
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Microsoft has invested €15 million ($16 million) in French AI company Mistral and will bring its newest AI model, Mistral Large, to Azure as part of a multiyear deal. The investment allows Microsoft to build Azure as a model garden and establish a presence in the European AI space. Mistral, a developer of open-source AI models, is popular among developers and will provide Microsoft with a range of choices to offer customers. The deal does not pit Mistral against Microsoft's first AI child, OpenAI, which remains the preferred option for powering Microsoft's flagship AI product, Copilot.
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Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI
Livemint
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1y ago
Medial
French startup Mistral is challenging the dominance of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, with its own language model called Mistral-Large. Despite being smaller in terms of parameters used, Mistral-Large performs almost on par with OpenAI's GPT-4. Mistral has secured significant funding, including a deal with Microsoft to make its models available on Azure cloud. The company's success is attributed to its talent pool, expertise in data curation, and political connections, as well as its focus on providing more control to customers and avoiding reliance on American tech platforms. The future of open-source models in the AI industry remains uncertain, pending the release of OpenAI's GPT-5.
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Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI
The Verge
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1y ago
Medial
Microsoft has entered into a multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup valued at €2 billion. As part of the deal, Microsoft will acquire a minor stake in Mistral and make its open and commercial language models available on Microsoft's Azure AI platform. Mistral has also launched a new AI model called Mistral Large, which will compete with OpenAI's GPT-4 model. The partnership allows Mistral to explore commercial opportunities and expand its offerings. The financial details of the partnership have not been disclosed.
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Elon Musk to open-source AI chatbot Grok this week
TechCrunch
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1y ago
Medial
Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, will release its chatbot, Grok, as open-source software, following Musk's recent lawsuit against OpenAI, which he claimed had become closed-source and focused on profitability rather than open-source roots. Grok was launched by xAI last year and offers real-time information access. The move to open-source Grok is in line with Musk's support for open-source initiatives, as demonstrated by Tesla's patents being open to use by anyone in good faith. Other companies, including Meta and Mistral, have also recently published their chatbot codes as open source.
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