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 Mistral AI, an open-source developer of foundation models, is reportedly in the process of raising funds at an estimated USD 6 billion valuation. This round is being pursued by several investors such as DST, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, and anticipates raising close to USD 600 million.
 
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 This round, reportedly attracting significant inbound interest, has been in progress since March. Proceeds are planned to enhance Mistral's capabilities to compete against AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic.
 
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 Mistral AI, an open-source developer of foundation models, is reportedly raising funds at an estimated value of USD 6 billion. Investors such as DST, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners are participating in this round, which could raise up to USD 600 million.
 The funding round, which has drawn considerable interest, has been ongoing since March. The funding is intended to boost Mistral's ability to compete with AI firms, including OpenAI and Anthropic.
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 Despite being a young company, Mistral’s approach to open-source AI has pushed its valuation up from the USD 2 billion mark after its last round in December <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/24813"> raising USD 415 million </a> . It presently offers three LLM versions.

Mistral AI in talks to raise USD 600 million at USD 6 billion valuation

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 Mistral AI, a developer of open-source foundation models, is presently raising funds, with an anticipated valuation of around USD 6 billion. Major investors involved in this round include DST, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, and the company aims to accumulate close to USD 600 million.
 This fundraising round, that has drawn substantial interest, commenced in March. Proceeds from this round are set to be used to augment Mistral's abilities to rival AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic.
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 Despite being a young company, Mistral’s approach to open-source AI has pushed its valuation up from the USD 2 billion mark after its last round in December <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/24813"> raising USD 415 million </a> . It presently offers three LLM versions.

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 The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to carry out investigations on the recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) takeovers by tech giants Microsoft and Amazon. The impending examination is the result of prevalent concerns about possible disruption of the competitive balance within the AI sector.
 Specifically, the probe will cast an eye into Microsoft's partnership with Mistral AI, an open-source originator of foundational models. It will also consider the software company's poaching of crucial staff from Inflection AI, which is the creator of the chatbot named Pi.&nbsp;
 The CMA will also delve into Amazon's mammoth investment, estimated to be around 4 billion dollars, in the AI newcomer, Anthropic. The decision regarding this inquisition is reliant on feedback from 'concerned third parties.' These pieces of input will dictate whether this preliminary examination will elevate into a full-scale antitrust investigation.
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 This month, EU antitrust regulators also looked into <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/28613"> Microsoft's USD 13 billion investment in OpenAI </a> and concluded that it is not an acquisition and does not require a formal investigation. Moreover, earlier this year, the European Commission initiated a competition investigation into Microsoft's multibillion-dollar <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/25468"> investment in OpenAI </a> . <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/27024"> Microsoft's partnership with Mistral AI </a> was also under scrutiny from the EU in February and <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/26068"> Italy's Data Protection Authority issued a warning to OpenAI </a> that its chatbot ChatGPT was supposedly breaching data protection rules in January.&nbsp;

UK regulators to investigate AI deals by Microsoft and Amazon

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 Mistral AI, an open-source foundation models developer, has unveiled 8x22B, a Layer-wise Learning Mechanism (LLM) based on Mixture of Experts (MoE) infrastructure.
 This strategic initiative is designed to offer users a collection of various models, each excelling in different tasks. The purpose of this is to enhance performance and reduce costs by only necessitating 44 billion active parameters for each forward pass.
 The model features a 65,000-token context window and a massive parameter count of 176 billion. Moreover, the model falls under the Apache 2.0 license, known for its leniency.
 
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Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x22B, an LLM built on multiple MoE for optimized cost and performance

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

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 A Paris-based AI startup, Mistral AI, has recently teamed up with the data analytics platform Snowflake, to offer its solution, Mistral Large LLM, on Snowflake's data cloud. This collaboration is set to enhance the functionality of the Snowflake users by providing them the multilingual and reasoning capabilities of Mistral AI’s LLMs, in addition to its code and mathematical abilities.
 Furthermore, with this partnership, Snowflake users will be able to avail the services of Mistral AI’s open-source model, Mixtral 8x7B. Both of these models are in the public preview stage and are open for Snowflake's customers to access and use.
 
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 This partnership mirrors an <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/27079"> integration </a> between <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/companies/150091"> Databricks </a> and Shorthills AI in February 2024 to join data analytics with <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/industry/163"> GenAI </a> . The integration of GenAI into data infrastructure products is an ongoing trend, with other examples like Acceldata’s <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/26512"> Copilot </a> in February and Microsoft’s <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/25791"> Copilot </a> for Power BI in January.

Mistral AI partners with Snowflake to offer solutions to Snowflake’s data cloud

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 The AI startup based in Paris, Mistral AI, has formed a partnership with Snowflake, a company specialising in data management and analytics. This will allow Mistral AI to offer its Large Language Models (LLM), known as Mistral Large, in the Snowflake data cloud.
 This collaborative effort will present Snowflake users with the opportunity to utilise Mistral AI’s LLMs. These models boast features in various languages and are also capable of reasoning, code, and mathematics. In addition, customers of Snowflake will have the chance to make use of Mistral AI’s open-source model, Mixtral 8x7B. Furthermore, the models are currently available for public preview.
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 This February Mistral AI also entered into partnerships with <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/27045"> Microsoft </a> , <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/26907"> Amazon </a> and <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/27323"> IBM </a> to make its models available in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Bedrock and watsonx cloud platforms respectively to improve accessibility of models.&nbsp;

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 AI startup Mistral AI, based in Paris, has collaborated with data management and analytics platform, Snowflake. The partnership aims at making Mistral's large language models (LLM), Mistral large, available on the Snowflake data cloud.&nbsp;
 Snowflake clients can now utilise Mistral AI's LLMs providing multilingual functionality along with reasoning, coding, and mathematical abilities. Snowflake users can also access Mistral AI's open-source model, Mixtral 8x7B. These models are currently available to clients in public preview.&nbsp;
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 This February Mistral AI also entered into partnerships with <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/27045"> Microsoft </a> , <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/26907"> Amazon </a> and <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/27323"> IBM </a> to make its models available in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Bedrock and watsonx cloud platforms respectively to improve accessibility of models.&nbsp;

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 French artificial intelligence startup, Mistral AI, has formed a partnership with IBM. This collaboration will make Mistral AI's open-source Mixtral-8x7B large language model available on IBM’s AI and data platform, watsonx.
 An optimized version of Mixtral-8x7B is part of this partnership, boasting a reduction in processing time by 35-75%. This reduction is made possible through IBM's use of a quantization process which decreases model sizes and memory demands, subsequently leading to energy and cost savings.&nbsp;
 In further developments, IBM has made further open-source models available on watsonx. These include Meta's Llama-2-13B-chat and Llama-2-70B-chat, the ELYZA-japanese-Llama-2-7b model and a variety of third-party models.
 The startup Mistral AI has not only collaborated with IBM, but also established partnerships with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27045"> Microsoft </a> and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26907"> Amazon </a> in February. These collaborations contribute to improving the accessibility of models by making them available on Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's Bedrock cloud platforms.
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Mistral AI partners with IBM to make its model available on watsonx

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 Microsoft and French startup Mistral AI have joined forces to create and implement large language models (LLMs) aimed at benefiting numerous real-world applications. This partnership gives Mistral AI the opportunity to utilize Microsoft's Azure AI infrastructure, thus hastening the development and distribution of LLMs. The collaboration improves Mistral's prospects for discovering new business avenues and global expansion.
 Mistral's main commercial model, Mistral Large, will be offered on Azure AI and Mistral AI's platform as a result of this partnership.
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Microsoft partners with Mistral AI to develop and deploy next-generation LLMs

The European Union (EU) plans to analyze the strategic partnership between Microsoft and Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI. The relationship has attracted scrutiny because it reportedly prevents customers from using competing security software. Authorities argue that the EU AI Act, which was altered to fit Mistral's needs, creates a challenging environment for global competition. The European Parliament reportedly encourages French companies to grow independently rather than relying on countries like China or the US. There have also been concerns raised about the timing of the discussions between Mistral and Microsoft. In light of these issues, the European Union's competition watchdog intends to investigate the deal. Analyst QuickTake: 
 This investigation follows <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/26996"> Microsoft’s investment in Mistral AI </a> of USD 16.3 million for a minority stake. This partnership supposedly was to make Mistral AI’s <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/26995"> newly developed model </a> available on Microsoft's Azure AI platform. Earlier this year, the European Commission initiated a competition investigation into Microsoft's multibillion-dollar i <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/25468"> nvestment in OpenAI </a> and also examined the competitiveness of the markets for virtual worlds and GenAI.

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Mistral AI in talks to raise USD 600 million at USD 6 billion valuation

Mistral AI in talks to raise USD 600 million at USD 6 billion valuation

UK regulators to investigate AI deals by Microsoft and Amazon

Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x22B, an LLM built on multiple MoE for optimized cost and performance

Mistral AI partners with Snowflake to offer solutions to Snowflake’s data cloud

Mistral AI partners with Snowflake to offer solutions to Snowflake’s data cloud

Mistral AI partners with Snowflake to offer solutions to Snowflake’s data cloud

Mistral AI partners with IBM to make its model available on watsonx

Microsoft partners with Mistral AI to develop and deploy next-generation LLMs

EU to analyze Microsoft's partnership with Mistral AI

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