Mistral AI Introduces LLM to Compete with Major Industry Players
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Mistral AI, a France-based startup, has introduced a new large language model (LLM) called Mistral Large that it claims can compete with several top AI systems on the market.
Mistral AI stated that Mistral Large outscored most major LLMs except for OpenAI’s recently launched GPT-4 in tests of language understanding. It also performed strongly in maths and coding assessments.
Co-founder and Chief Scientist Guillaume Lample said Mistral Large represents a major advance over earlier Mistral models. The company also launched a chatbot interface named Le Chat to allow users to interact with the system, similar to ChatGPT.
The exclusive system excels in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, offering more than 20,000 words in its vocabulary. Contrarily to Mistral’s initial open-source model, the advanced Mistral Large’s code is not openly accessible, similar to creations from OpenAI and other equivalent corporations.
Mistral AI accumulated close to $500 million from sponsors like Nvidia and Andreessen Horowitz during the concluding months of last year. Notably, a recent collaboration with Microsoft allows consumers to utilize the Mistral Large via Azure cloud services.
We are thrilled to declare a multi-year collaboration with @MistralAI, as we persist in delivering the most superior selection of open and foundational models on Azure. https://t.co/k1L7lfFeES
European Union regulators scrutinize the €15 million investment by Microsoft into Mistral AI. These officials who are studying Microsoft’s relation to OpenAI, creator of top market models such as GPT-3 and GPT-4, have potential concerns. On Tuesday, the European Commission professed its plans to examine the Microsoft-Mistral agreement, which might culminate in a formal inquiry, thus unsettling the relationship.
Microsoft has focused most of its AI efforts on OpenAI, having invested around $13 billion into the California company. Those links are now also under review in both the EU and UK for potential anti-competitive concerns.
Pricing for the Mistral Large model starts at $8 per million tokens of input and $24 per million output tokens. The system will leverage Azure’s computing infrastructure for training and deployment needs as Mistral AI and Microsoft partner on AI research as well.
While third-party rankings have yet to fully assess Mistral Large, the firm’s earlier Mistral Medium ranked 6th out of over 60 language models. With the latest release, Mistral AI appears positioned to challenge dominant players in the increasingly crowded AI space.
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