All articles tagged with #mistral
Originally Published 4 months ago — by The New York Times
ASML, a Dutch semiconductor equipment maker, is investing $1.5 billion in the French AI startup Mistral, valuing it at $13.8 billion, to strengthen Europe's position in AI and semiconductor technology amid geopolitical and competitive pressures.
Originally Published 4 months ago — by 9to5Mac
Apple is still considering acquisitions in AI, with ongoing discussions about Perplexity and Mistral, despite internal disagreements and a focus on smaller deals, amid a potential Google Search shakeup and internal debates on building versus buying AI capabilities.
Originally Published 6 months ago — by TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral has released Voxtral, its first open-source audio model designed for businesses, offering affordable, high-quality speech transcription and understanding in multiple languages, with variants suitable for different deployment needs, challenging proprietary solutions.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by TechCrunch
AI startup Mistral has launched a new content moderation API, powered by its fine-tuned Ministral 8B model, capable of classifying text into nine categories across multiple languages. The API, which can handle both raw and conversational text, aims to provide scalable and robust moderation solutions. While Mistral claims high accuracy, it acknowledges ongoing improvements and has not compared its performance to other popular moderation APIs. Additionally, Mistral introduced a batch API to reduce costs by processing high-volume requests asynchronously.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral has launched new services and an SDK to allow developers and enterprises to fine-tune its generative models for specific use cases. The SDK, Mistral-Finetune, supports multi-GPU setups and can scale down to a single GPU for smaller models. Mistral also offers managed fine-tuning services via API and custom training services for select customers. The company is seeking to raise $600 million at a $6 billion valuation as it faces increasing competition in the generative AI space.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by TechCrunch
Mistral, a French AI startup valued at $6 billion, has launched Codestral, a generative AI model for coding. Trained on over 80 programming languages, Codestral can complete coding tasks and answer codebase questions in English. However, its use is restricted for commercial activities due to licensing issues, and it requires a powerful PC to run. Despite its limitations and potential to introduce coding errors, Mistral aims to integrate Codestral into various development environments and monetize it through a hosted version and paid API.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Business Insider
Mistral's CEO, Arthur Mensch, expressed discomfort with the tech industry's obsession with artificial general intelligence (AGI), likening it to a religious fascination with creating a god. He emphasized the more imminent threat posed by tech giants to global cultures and values, echoing concerns about their potential dominance in the AI industry. Meanwhile, Anthony Levandowski, CEO of Pollen Mobile, has announced the revival of his AI church, "Way of the Future," aiming to establish a "spiritual connection" with AI.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The New York Times
Mistral, a French AI start-up, is gaining support from European leaders as they aim to challenge tech giants like OpenAI and Google in the AI industry. The company, founded in Paris just a year ago, is seen as Europe's best hope to create a standard-bearer in AI, with concerns that the dominance of US tech giants in AI could set global standards at odds with European culture and politics. Mistral's CEO, Arthur Mensch, and his co-founders are working to ensure that Europe has a say in shaping the future of AI and its regulations.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Guardian
OpenAI, Google, and Mistral have all released new versions of their frontier AI models within hours of each other, with OpenAI releasing GPT-4 Turbo, Google releasing Gemini Pro 1.5, and Mistral releasing Mixtral 8x22B. Meta's Llama 3 is expected to be released soon, with competition from OpenAI's GPT-5. However, experts question the limitations of the "large language model" approach and suggest a shift towards "objective-driven" AI for truly superhuman abilities.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Register
It's possible to run large language models (LLMs) like Mistral or Codellama on your PC using tools like Ollama, LM Suite, and Llama.cpp, with support for Nvidia and Apple's M-series GPUs as well as AVX2-compatible CPUs. Ollama can be installed on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and offers various models and quantization options to optimize performance based on system resources. The article provides instructions for installing Ollama, running models, and managing installed models, and suggests exploring other frameworks for running local LLMs if needed.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Register
The European Commission is investigating Microsoft's €15 million investment in French startup Mistral, which recently released a large language model to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Mistral's partnership with Microsoft to bring its models to Azure has raised concerns about consolidating power and stifling innovation in the AI industry. EU regulators are wary of AI mergers with Big Tech and are closely monitoring AI partnerships to ensure they do not unduly distort market dynamics. This comes as the EU is working on an AI Act to enforce rules for AI systems based on the risks they pose, with generative AI models like Mistral Large considered as "high-impact general-purpose" systems that might pose systemic risk.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Yahoo Finance
Microsoft has announced a new partnership with French AI developer Mistral, expanding its AI portfolio beyond its existing partnership with OpenAI. The financial details of the investment have not been disclosed, but the move allows Microsoft to offer multiple AI models to its customers and potentially alleviate regulatory scrutiny over its close ties to OpenAI. This expansion aligns with the trend of tech companies adding more AI capabilities to better serve their customers.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by The Verge
Microsoft has partnered with French AI startup Mistral, investing in the company and making its open and commercial language models available on Azure AI platform. This marks Microsoft's second major AI partnership beyond OpenAI, with Mistral releasing a new AI model, Mistral Large, to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4. The partnership allows Mistral to explore more commercial opportunities, and Microsoft gains more visibility into OpenAI's operations through a nonvoting observer seat on the nonprofit board.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Financial Times
Microsoft has announced a partnership with Mistral, signaling its expansion beyond its existing collaboration with OpenAI. The deal aims to bolster Microsoft's artificial intelligence capabilities and further its presence in the AI space.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Slashdot
Mistral, an open source AI company, is reportedly developing a new large language model (LLM) labeled "miqu-1-70b" that is said to approach or even exceed the performance of OpenAI's GPT-4. The model was initially leaked by an over-enthusiastic employee of one of Mistral's early access customers and has garnered attention for its high performance at common LLM tasks. Mistral's co-founder and CEO confirmed the leak, stating that the model was retrained from Llama 2 and that the company has made significant progress since.