Microsoft partners with OpenAI rival Mistral

OpenAI’s France-based rival, Mistral, is its newest and largest model for enterprises. Mistral Largeand its partnership with Microsoft.

Within the scope of the agreement with Microsoft, all open and commercial models of Mistral will be available in Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning. This will make Mistral the second company to make commercial language models available on Azure. Mistral says Azure users can access models with their existing credits and use them with as seamless a user experience as in their own APIs. The company will also provide direct access to the support team for customers coming through Azure.

Microsoft will not be the sole distribution partner for Mistral. A few days ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) also announced that open models of Mistral would come to Amazon Bedrock, but no date was specified for this.

Mistral Large

In addition to these collaborations, Mistral has also launched Mistral Large as of today. Mistral Large was implemented as a text generation model that can perform complex multilingual reasoning tasks such as text comprehension, transformation, and code generation. According to massive multitasking language understanding (MMLU) benchmark results shared by the company, it performs quite well, being the second-best overall available via an API after GPT-4.

Mistral is working on the larger model primarily through its API, but thanks to a new partnership with Microsoft It says it can also be used through Azure AI. Mistral Large only English not, French, Spanish, German ve Italian It is stated that he will understand other languages, especially other languages, with native fluency.

Users can create an account on Mistral’s website for beta access to Mistral Chat and interact with the models the company offers in a pedagogical and fun way. However, the company warns that it cannot access the internet and may provide inaccurate or outdated information in some cases.