{"id":11058,"date":"2024-02-27T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microsoft-commits-2-1-billion-to-mistral-ai-partnership\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:09:03","slug":"microsoft-commits-2-1-billion-to-mistral-ai-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microsoft-commits-2-1-billion-to-mistral-ai-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Commits $2.1 Billion to Mistral AI Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 26th, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure\/\">announced<\/a> a long-term partnership with the French company Mistral AI, involving an investment of $2.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the European startup&#8217;s large language models (LLM) have been integrated into the tech giant&#8217;s Azure platform. Mistral becomes the second company after OpenAI to host its LLMs on the cloud computing platform.<\/p>\n<p>Clients gained access to Mistral AI&#8217;s premium models through the Models as a Service (MaaS) offering in the Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning catalog. The AI-optimized infrastructure has opened up additional opportunities for the startup to promote, sell, and distribute its services to Microsoft&#8217;s global clientele.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Smith, president of the American corporation, stated that the deal signals support for European technologies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite><em>\u201cWe are entering into a long-term partnership with Mistral AI so they can train and deploy their next-generation AI models in our data centers,\u201d<\/em> he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/02\/26\/microsoft-invests-in-europes-mistral-ai-to-expand-beyond-openai.html\">said<\/a> during an interview with CNBC at the Mobile World Congress technology conference in Barcelona.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Representatives of the tech giant indicated that they will explore collaboration with Mistral AI in training models for select clients, including the European public sector.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Microsoft invested over $5 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Spain and Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 26th, Microsoft announced a long-term partnership with the French company Mistral AI, involving an investment of $2.1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,15,1133],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-microsoft","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}