Microsoft and Mistral AI Forge Multi-Year Partnership to Drive AI Innovation
Furthermore, Microsoft has announced the availability of Mistral AI’s flagship commercial model, Mistral Large, initially on Azure AI and the Mistral AI platform.
Microsoft and Mistral AI have joined forces in a multi-year partnership aimed at accelerating AI innovation and expanding commercial opportunities in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence. This collaboration between two industry leaders underscores their shared commitment to fostering open-source initiatives, achieving top-tier performance, and developing trustworthy, scalable, and responsible AI solutions.
The partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI is structured around three key areas. Firstly, Microsoft will provide support to Mistral AI by leveraging Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure, delivering unparalleled performance and scalability for AI training and inference workloads, particularly for Mistral AI’s flagship models. Secondly, Mistral AI's premium models will be made available to customers through the Models as a Service (MaaS) offering in the Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning model catalog. Lastly, both companies will explore opportunities for collaboration in training purpose-specific models tailored for select customers, including European public sector workloads.
Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI, expressed his enthusiasm for the partnership, highlighting the potential for growth and innovation enabled by Azure's cutting-edge AI infrastructure. He stated, "We are thrilled to embark on this partnership with Microsoft. With Azure’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure, we are reaching a new milestone in our expansion, propelling our innovative research and practical applications to new customers everywhere."
Furthermore, Microsoft has announced the availability of Mistral AI’s flagship commercial model, Mistral Large, initially on Azure AI and the Mistral AI platform. Mistral Large represents a breakthrough in general-purpose language models, boasting state-of-the-art reasoning and knowledge capabilities. Capable of addressing a wide range of text-based use cases, Mistral Large excels in code and mathematics comprehension, supports multilingual processing (including French, German, Spanish, and Italian in addition to English), and can efficiently process multiple documents in a single call.
The integration of Mistral models into the Azure AI model catalog, accessible through Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning, empowers Microsoft customers with a diverse selection of cutting-edge and open-source models for developing and deploying custom AI applications.
To explore the capabilities of Mistral Large on Azure AI, customers can visit the Mistral Large model card and sign in with their Azure subscription, unlocking a world of innovative AI solutions tailored to their specific needs and objectives.
