The implications of the Microsoft-Mistral AI partnership

Microsoft and Mistral AI have announced a multi-year partnership that both companies stand to benefit from.

Mistral AI will benefit from Microsoft’s huge cloud resources for its research. Microsoft’s distribution channels will also provide Mistral AI with a potential path to profitability.

Microsoft will benefit from a more diverse set of models to offer to its enterprise customers. It will also become much less dependent on OpenAI.

But the relationship might also evolve into another Microsoft-OpenAI saga, evolving into less transparency and more focus on profitability.

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