Mistral and Snowflake have partnered to bring Mistral Large to Snowflake Cortex customers.

Microsoft's €15 million investment in French AI firm Mistral while continuing its strong partnership with OpenAI illustrates its strategy to diversify and bolster Azure's AI offerings and gain a foothold in the European market ahead of the EU's AI Act. Azure aims to become a model garden, offering a variety of AI models to attract developers and compete with other cloud services. The Mistral deal also positions Microsoft strategically within European AI regulatory frameworks.

There have been reports of the open source pioneer Mistral seeking several hundred million dollars of funding to train more models.

The new base Mistral report was released today. Additionally, their own instruction tuned model was released under a similar permissive license. They report a strong MMLU and HumanEval performance along with incredible multilingual English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish performance, function calling, and 64k native context length.

Mistral is working to find a balance between openness and business success. It has a new license aimed at striking that balance. It will continue releasing other projects under Apache 2.0 as well as the new MNPL license.

Mistral released a 22B code model with 32k context. It is a powerful and fast model with broad performance across many programming languages. It has open weights and is available via Mistral's platform.

Mistral has launched customization for its models via its platform and API.

Mistral, a Paris-based AI startup, turns 1 year old today. It announced a monster series B funding raise.

Mistral Nemo 12B is a multilingual model trained with a new tokenizer that shows powerful multilingual and English performance. It supports 128k contexts too.

French AI startup Mistral has launched Pixtral 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model capable of processing both images and text. Available via GitHub and Hugging Face, the model can be fine-tuned and used under an Apache 2.0 license. Its release follows Mistral's $645 million funding round and positions the company as a significant player in Europe's AI landscape.

Mistral has released a free API tier, dramatically reduced its costs, improved the performance of its small model, and put its vision model in Le Chat.