Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI
The Verge Microsoft’s multiyear deal with French AI company Mistral signaled that the company wants longevity in the space. The company invested €2 billion ($2.1 billion) into Mistral and announced it would bring Mistral’s newest AI model, Mistral Large, to Azure. But the investment into Mistral, mainly a developer of open-source AI models, doesn’t mean Microsoft lost faith in its first AI child, OpenAI. Instead, Microsoft is laying the groundwork to build Azure as a model garden and give itself a foothold in Europe. Arun Chandrasekaran, an analyst at Gartner, tells The Verge the deal emphasizes the managed services business of AI, one in which Azure can play a role. “Even before the Mistral announcement, Microsoft has been talking about... Continue reading…
微软与法国人工智能公司Mistral签署多年合作协议,投资20亿欧元引入Mistral的人工智能模型到Azure,展示Azure的多样性选择,扩大微软在欧洲人工智能领域的影响力。