Microsoftannounceda new partnership with Mistral AI on Monday, aFrench startupwhose advanced large language models rivalOpenAIs ChatGPTandMicrosoft Copilot.
Microsoft made a $16 million investment in Mistral AI, a company spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo.
TheEuropean Commissionis looking into Microsoft and Mistrals new deal, a spokesperson told Gizmodo on Tuesday.
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Mistrals models will be available alongside OpenAIs models on certain Microsoft Azure services.
Until Mixtral-8x7b, open-source models struggled to keep up with proprietary models like Claude-2, Gemini-Ultra, and ChatGPT-4.
Mistral says it will also bring open-source models to Azure.
Until now, OpenAI was the only AI startup Microsoft heavily partnered with.
Therelationship drew attention from regulatorsafterMicrosoft hired Sam Altman immediately after OpenAIs board fired him.
Starting today, OpenAI will now share space on Azure servers.
Mistrals new products seem to be following OpenAIs playbook.
Le Chat is a ChatGPT-like service that runs on Mistral Large and Mistral Small.
Not to mention, Mistral seems to be closing its best models, no longer making them open-sourced.
OpenAI closed off its models shortlybefore it partnered with Microsoft.
The company hasdrawn much criticism from Elon Musk and others for no longer being open or a non-profit.
When it comes time to monetize AI models, most tech companies have chosen to stop open-sourcing their models.
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