Recently, the highly anticipated French AI company Mistral Announcing the launch of its AI Chatbots Le ChatThe chatbot is seen as a strong competitor to ChatGPT and is designed to be a "conversational portal" for users to interact with various Mistral models such as Mistral Large, Mistral Small and Next.
Currently, Le Chat has opened beta testing, and users can experience it by registering as a beta tester. In addition, Mistral also provides an "enterprise version" that has "self-deployment capabilities" and "sophisticated audit mechanisms."
Similar to ChatGPT, which offers free and paid plans,Le Chat also offers free and paid versions. But unlike ChatGPT Plus's fixed fee of $20 per month, Le Chat adopts a token-based pay-as-you-go model. Le Chat's pricing depends on the selected model, with the most affordable open-mistral-7b model input and output both costing $0.25 per million tokens, while the more powerful mistral-large-2402 model input and output costs $8 and $24 per million tokens, respectively.
It is worth mentioning thatMicrosoftRecently reached an agreement with Mistral to accelerate the latter's artificial intelligence development. The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.But it clearly shows that OpenAI is not Microsoft's "only favorite", Microsoft does not completely monopolize the field of artificial intelligence.
Mistral has become the second company after OpenAI to provide commercial language models on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Currently, Mistral is valued at approximately 2 billion euros (currently approximately 15.62 billion yuan), while Microsoft has invested at least 13 billion US dollars (currently approximately 93.6 billion yuan) in OpenAI since 2019.