Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI

Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that’s valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 billion). The Financial Times reports that the partnership will include Microsoft taking a minor stake in the 10-month-old AI company, just a little over a year after Microsoft invested more than $10 billion into its OpenAI partnership.

The deal will see Mistral’s open and commercial language models available on Microsoft’s Azure AI platform, the second company …

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