Microsoft partners with French generative AI unicorn Mistral AI

On the evening of February 26, Microsoft officially announced a long-term partnership with French generative AI unicorn Mistral AI. This partnership will focus on three core areas: Microsoft will support Mistral AI's big model training and inference efforts through the Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure; Microsoft and Mistral AI will offer customers Mistral AI's Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) through Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning Model Catalog; Microsoft and Mistral AI will explore opportunities around training purpose-built models for specific customers; and Microsoft and Mistral AI will explore opportunities around training purpose-built models for specific customers. advanced models; and Microsoft and Mistral AI will explore collaboration around training purpose-built models for specific customers. In addition, Microsoft has made a small investment in Mistral AI but does not hold any equity in the company, according to the FT.