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Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk over lawsuitIn Elon Musk’s breach of contract lawsuit filed late last month against OpenAI, the billionaire raises a fair question: Why does OpenAI, a nonprofit entity, act so much like a for-profit one?  Since the public launch of ChatGPT—and the ensuing mania around the tech—OpenAI has raced to release a stream of…

France had no prior knowledge of Microsoft's partnership with tech startup Mistral AI, a finance ministry official told Reuters, denying suggestions that French lobbying for looser European AI rules had been on behalf of the U.S. tech giant.Earlier this week, Microsoft said it had made a 15-million euro ($16 million) investment in Mistral, and would soon make the Paris-based company's AI models available via its Azure cloud computing platform.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.In Microsoft’s Mistral stake, some EU regulators smell betrayalThe French unicorn AI lab Mistral said Monday that it’s sold a small share of the company to Microsoft for $16 million. Founded by Google DeepMind and Meta alumni, Mistral has billed itself as an open-source-friendly company, releasing its first two models via Hugging Face last year. But…

Mistral AI has developed and released several AI models for different user needs, with both commercial and open models. Its open AI models, which are available for free with a fully permissive license, include its original Mistral 7B transformer model, its smaller original model fluent in English with an 8K content window, and its most capable open model, Mixtral 8x7B with a 32K context window fluent in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, code, according to the website. Also: The best AI chatbotsIts commercial…

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Andrii and Ioanna talk about multilingual LLMs, the latest news from Mistral AI, some boardroom drama, language learning theories, and a few things in between. The guest of the show is Zeynep Yavuz, partner at global venture firm General Catalyst, taking about…

The European Union is looking into Microsoft’s partnership with French startup Mistral AI as part of its broader review of the booming generative artificial intelligence sector to see if it raises any competition concerns.The 27-nation bloc’s executive commission said Tuesday in a brief statement that it’s analyzing the agreement between the two companies announced a day earlier. Microsoft declined to comment. Mistral did not respond to a request for comment.Microsoft said Monday it was teaming up with Mistral through a…

Yesterday, Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI startup working on foundational models, announced a new large language model that could rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, a chat assistant and a distribution partnership with Microsoft yesterday. But Microsoft and Mistral AI buried the news — or at least an important part. As part of the partnership, Microsoft is investing €15 million in the French startup ($16.3 million at today’s exchange rate). Microsoft says that this investment will convert into equity in Mistral’s next funding round.…

Microsoft's deal with French tech startup Mistral AI should be further investigated, one of the lawmakers who oversaw the drafting of the European Union's landmark AI Act said.On Monday, Microsoft announced it would soon make Mistral's AI models available through its Azure cloud computing platform.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in…

Tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Paris-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mistral AI which would allow the latter’s AI models to run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. The less-than-year-old startup is making waves and being considered Europe’s response to AI platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini (formerly known as Bard)Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine…

Microsoft announced an artificial intelligence partnership Monday with the French startup Mistral AI that could lessen the software giant's reliance on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for supplying the next wave of chatbots and other generative AI products.Mistral AI emerged less than a year ago but is already what Microsoft described Monday as an “innovator and trailblazer” at the vanguard of building more efficient and cost-effective AI systems. Microsoft and Mistral didn't disclose the financial terms of the deal, though…