Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation

- Partnership amounts to €15 million investment, Microsoft says — EU analysis could lead to future formal investigation

Bloomberg 2024-02-27 Samuel Stolton

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@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
Microsoft's €15 million ($16.3 million) investment into Mistral AI could face EU scrutiny. Regulators are already looking into the new deal https://www.theverge.com/... [image]
@samuelstolton Samuel Stolton on x
New: Microsoft's Mistral AI investment is set to be analyzed by the European Union's competition watchdog, at the same time that its deep ties to OpenAI Inc are under regulatory scrutiny. More @business: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@mhbergen Mark Bergen on x
le shot / le chaser https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
@markhachman Mark Hachman on x
Mistral is one of the hot new companies in AI, and the company's LLM is one of the most popular. Microsoft said today that it has partnered with the company and made a small investment.
@guillaumelample Guillaume Lample on x
Our models are available on the @MistralAI API (La Plateforme). It supports JSON format and function calling. We are also making our commercial models available through Azure AI. Read more at: https://mistral.ai/... https://mistral.ai/... Congrats to all the @MistralAI team...
@guillaumelample Guillaume Lample on x
Due to an unexpected number of requests, Le Chat is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience — we are working on getting it back up and running as soon as we can, thanks for your patience!
@arthurmensch Arthur Mensch on x
We're announcing a new optimised model today! Mistral Large has top-tier reasoning capacities, is multi-lingual by design, has native function calling capacities and a 32k model. The pre-trained model has 81.2% accuracy on MMLU. Learn more on https://mistral.ai/.... Mistral...
@xlr8harder @xlr8harder on x
Congrats to Mistral on this release, but I'm disappointed because it looks like @MistralAI has downstream usage restrictions in the TOS for their service. I was under the impression they weren't going to do this, but maybe it was only for the open source models? [image]
@sophiamyang Sophia Yang, Ph.D. on x
Extremely excited about our @MistralAI launch today: 🔸 Mistral Large: new flagship model https://mistral.ai/... 🔸 Le Chat: brand new chat interface https://chat.mistral.ai/ 🔸 Advanced reasoning, function calling, JSON mode, and more [image]
@methekarthik Karthik Kannan on x
A new mistral large model. I'm pretty convinced for most RAG applications these models are enough to deliver great results at a much more affordable cost than GPT. Plus JSON formatting + function calling! ideal ideal ideal
r/MistralAI r on reddit
Au Large | Mistral AI | Mistral Large is our flagship model, with top-tier reasoning capacities. It is also available on Azure AI
@marcslove Marc Love on threads
Mistral's Azure deal kinda invalidates any notion of Mistral being an “EU answer” to U.S. dominance in AI. Their biggest customers, and most of their profits, will come from Microsoft customers, with the U.S. economy taking a nice chunk along the way. It creates an interesting …
@simli.bsky.social @simli.bsky.social on bluesky
not bad for a european ai company [embedded post]
@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
We're announcing a multi-year partnership with @MistralAI, as we build on our commitment to offer customers the best choice of open and foundation models on Azure.
@toddbishop @toddbishop on x
Update: Microsoft invested 15 million euros in Mistral AI, or about $16.2 million at current exchange rates, “which would convert into equity in Mistral's next funding round,” a Microsoft spokesperson said. https://www.geekwire.com/...
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
Just as regulators are questioning Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft partners with one of OpenAI's top up and coming contenders that was just featured in @WSJ. A hallmark of Satya's run as Microsoft's CEO is always planning ahead and covering his bases. Strategy 💯
@jasonlk @jasonlk on x
Honestly I'd be kinda pissed if I sold 49% of my company to a Big Tech Co and then they went and invested $2.1B in a scrappy new competitor [image]
@pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x
Microsoft diversifying their AI models. , even though Microsoft is so embedded with and owns 49% of OpenAI profits Wonder how much the @OpenAI board conflict played into this diversification. Smart move; MSFT Cloud did $90B in revenue last year; they invested $10B in OpenAI.
@cgarciae88 Cristian Garcia on x
You can't lose if you bet on every player
@mer__edith Meredith Whittaker on x
Told you so!* (*that the only biz model for even the best model startups is being acquired by or otherwise entering into an encumbered relationship w one of the big US infra providers. Meaning there's no chance rn for meaningful EU (or, other) competition w US AI giants.)
@kylebrussell Kyle Russell on x
in a world heading toward AI protectionism, Microsoft is minority owner of *the* American AI + *the* European AI and the default route to both for enterprises
@azure @azure on x
🚀 Join us in celebrating the transformative partnership between Microsoft and @MistralAI! We're paving the way for efficient and cost-effective AI models that accelerate growth and deliver real-world solutions. Learn more: https://azure.microsoft.com/ ... #MicrosoftAzure #Mistral…
@pradeepviswav @pradeepviswav on x
Surprise deal from Microsoft. I was expecting @awscloud to strike a deal with @MistralAI and other AI startups as they are lagging behind in AI.

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