Microsoft Strikes Deal With Mistral in Push Beyond OpenAI (ft.com) 13
Microsoft has struck a deal with French AI startup Mistral as it seeks to broaden its involvement in the fast-growing industry beyond OpenAI. From a report: The US tech giant will provide the 10-month-old Paris-based company with help in bringing its AI models to market. Microsoft will also take a minor stake in Mistral, although the financial details have not been disclosed. The partnership makes Mistral the second company to provide commercial language models available on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform. Microsoft has already invested about $13 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI, an alliance that is being reviewed by competition watchdogs in the US, EU and UK. Other Big Tech rivals, such as Google and Amazon, are also investing heavily in building generative AI -- software that can produce text, images and code in seconds -- which analysts believe has the capacity to shake up industries across the world. WSJ adds: On Monday, Mistral plans to announce a new AI model, called Mistral Large, that Mensch said can perform some reasoning tasks comparably with GPT-4, OpenAI's most advanced language model to date, and Gemini Ultra, Google's new model. Mensch said his new model cost less than 20 million euros, the equivalent of roughly $22 million, to train. By contrast OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said last year after the release of GPT-4 that training his company's biggest models cost "much more than" $50 million to $100 million.
beyond "ai"? (Score:2)
what's that, straight into godmaking?
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If you have natural intelligence, artificial intelligence (through intelligent design), then perhaps the next step is evolved artificial intelligence. I.E. the result of an AI that makes changes to itself.
3 front page AI articles in a row? Really? (Score:2)
In the entire world is there *really* nothing else to post?
C'mon... 1-2 a week is overkill especially after the bombardment of AI articles we've had for months.
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"3 frontpage articles about the Internet? Really?"
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If that were true, sure. But it isn't.
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woosh
Whoa... (Score:2)
... I have kind of a sinking feeling about this. Mistral arguably makes the best open-license (Apache) open-weight models out there, and has been pushing hard on the tech front. I hope this deal doesn't lead to pressure to put more of their work behind closed doors :(
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Looks like that change is already in progress. Their website removed wording about open weights and the self-deployment bit just says CONTACT US. The smaller models are still up on HF though, would be pointless to remove them.
It's pretty niche (Score:2)
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Only if you trust leaderboards (which are easy to rig) and have a ton of memory and want slow generations.
"Much more than" "50 to 100 million" (Score:1)
"Much more than" "50 to 100 million"
I guess ChatGPT generated the WSJ article. The articles write themselves, and so do the comments...