Some adroit, some gauche.
We've already looked at the end-of-February Microsoft hook-up "FrenchTech: "Critics question Microsoft's deal with Mistral AI, as EU set to look into it".
NowVentureBeat tells us (March 5)
Snowflake partners with Mistral AI, taking its open LLMs to the data cloud
Today, Snowflake announced it has signed a multi-year agreement with Mistral, the Paris-based AI startup that raised Europe’s largest-ever seed round in June 2023 and has since become a rising star in the global AI domain.
Under the partnership, Snowflake said it plans to bring all open large language models (LLMs) built by Mistral into its data cloud, making them directly available to customers looking to build LLM apps. The company also confirmed it is investing in the nine-month-old startup through its corporate venture capital arm. However, the exact amount has not been disclosed.
The deal marks another significant vote of confidence for Mistral, which has been moving forward aggressively by teaming with big tech companies. Mistral has also been expanding its model line-up rapidly with its newest Mistral Large model delivering a performance comparable to offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google....
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Meaning, if a company should so desire, they could train an AI on their own proprietary data, though doing that in the cloud risks having your most closely guarded secrets at greater risk of theft. Maybe better to use the Snowflake servers as a Mistral-as-a-Service platform and go with the off the shelf training.
And from InfoQ, also March 5:
Mistral AI Models Are Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI has made its Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models available on Amazon Bedrock. These models, now accessible via Amazon Bedrock's single API, aim to offer users a broader selection of high-performing models for building generative AI applications....
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Where it will join Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama 2 and Stability AI as an LLM option.
Finally the Wall Street Journal did a long form piece on the company to coincide with the roll-out of Mistral Large (French, German, Spanish, and Italian, in addition to English) which we will look at tomorrow.
