Microsoft announces partnership with AI development company 'Mistral AI', Mistral AI will be able to use Azure computing resources, and Azure users will be able to use Mistral AI models in addition to OpenAI models.



On Monday, February 26, 2024, Microsoft announced that it has formed a multi-year partnership with AI development company

Mistral AI . The partnership will give Mistral AI access to the powerful computational resources of Azure and enable Azure users to take advantage of Mistral AI's machine learning models. On the same day, Mistral AI also announced a performance-enhanced large-scale language model called Mistral Large .

Introducing Mistral-Large on Azure in partnership with Mistral AI | Microsoft Azure Blog
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/

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https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/

◆What is Mistral AI?
Mistral AI is a company that conducts AI research and development similar to OpenAI. Mistral AI is particularly focused on the development of large-scale language models, and on December 11, 2023, it announced the release of 'Mixtral 8x7B,' which has performance equal to or higher than the large-scale language model 'GPT-3.5' used in ChatGPT. ” is announced.

Introducing the large-scale language model 'Mixtral 8x7B' that can be used for free and commercially, and can demonstrate performance equivalent to or better than GPT-3.5 with low inference cost - GIGAZINE



Furthermore, on December 18, 2023, we announced the large-scale language model 'Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized,' which outperforms 'GPT-4' in specific tasks. It is attracting attention along with OpenAI as a company that continues to develop.

Introducing the fine tuning model 'Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized', demonstrating performance exceeding GPT-4 in specific tasks - GIGAZINE



◆Partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI
The partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI will enable Mistral AI to leverage the powerful computational resources of Microsoft's cloud computing service Azure. This streamlines model training and inference, accelerating the development and deployment of next-generation large-scale language models.

In addition, Mistral AI models have been added to the lineup of Azure's AI development platform ' Azure AI Studio ' and learning model catalog ' Model Catalog and Collections ,' and Azure users can now access Mistral AI models in addition to OpenAI models and open source models. You will also be able to select.

In addition, Microsoft and Mistral AI will also develop models specifically for specific customers, including the 'European public sector.'

◆Large-scale language model “Mistral Large”
Mistral Large, announced by Mistral AI, is a large-scale language model with a 32,000-token context window for English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. Below is a graph comparing the benchmark scores of Mistral Large and rival models. Although Mistral Large is inferior to GPT-4, it outperforms models such as Claude 2, Gemini Pro, GPT-3.5, and LLaMA 2 70B.



Mistral Large is already available on Aure, and costs are $0.024 (about 3.61 yen) per 1000 tokens for output and $0.008 (about 1.2 yen) per 1000 tokens for input.

Microsoft Azure Marketplace
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/000-000.mistral-ai-large-offer



◆Text about open source community disappears from Mistral AI top page
The top page of Mistral AI's official website states that until February 25, 2024, the day before announcing the partnership with Microsoft, ``We believe in the power of the open source community'' and ``We will continue to make machine learning models and various tools available under permissive licenses.'' It included phrases such as ``Publish,'' and ``We benefit from and give back to the open source community.''



However, on February 26, 2024, when the partnership with Microsoft was announced, the wording was removed from the top page. In response to this, speculation is spreading on the Internet that Mistral AI will stop contributing to the open source community and focus on closed source products.

in Software, Posted by log1o_hf