g-f(2)2015 Accelerating AI Innovation: Microsoft and Mistral AI’s New Partnership

 

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The article “Microsoft and Mistral AI announce new partnership to accelerate AI innovation and introduce Mistral Large first on Azure” discusses a significant collaboration between Microsoft and Mistral AI, aimed at accelerating AI innovation.

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"Microsoft and Mistral AI have formed a partnership to expedite AI innovation, with Mistral’s flagship model, Mistral Large, being introduced first on Azure." — Fernando Machuca and Bing Chatbot (Copilot)

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This multi-year partnership will enable Mistral AI to leverage Azure’s advanced AI infrastructure, accelerating the development and deployment of their next-generation large language models (LLMs). The collaboration focuses on supercomputing infrastructure, scale to market, and AI research and development. It represents an opportunity for Mistral AI to unlock new commercial opportunities, expand to global markets, and foster ongoing research collaboration.

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1. Microsoft and Mistral AI have announced a multi-year partnership.
2. The partnership aims to accelerate AI innovation.
3. Mistral AI will have access to Azure’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
4. This will accelerate the development and deployment of Mistral AI’s next-generation large language models (LLMs).
5. The partnership focuses on supercomputing infrastructure, scale to market, and AI research and development.
6. Microsoft will support Mistral AI with Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure.
7. Mistral AI’s premium models will be available to customers through the Models as a Service (MaaS) in the Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning model catalog.
8. Microsoft and Mistral AI will explore collaboration around training purpose-specific models for select customers.
9. Mistral AI’s flagship commercial model, Mistral Large, will be available first on Azure AI.
10. The partnership represents an opportunity for Mistral AI to unlock new commercial opportunities, expand to global markets, and foster ongoing research collaboration.

Conclusion: 

The partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI signifies a major step forward in AI innovation. By leveraging Azure’s advanced AI infrastructure, Mistral AI can accelerate the development and deployment of its next-generation large language models. This collaboration not only benefits both companies but also promises to advance the field of AI as a whole.

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Eric Boyd, Microsoft and Mistral AI announce new partnership to accelerate AI innovation and introduce Mistral Large first on Azure, Azure, Microsoft, February 26, 2024. 

Eric Boyd

Eric Boyd is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's AI platform¹. In this role, he oversees product and technology teams that build artificial intelligence and machine solutions for the company’s Azure platform and its AI services portfolio¹. 

Before his current role, Boyd was the General Manager of Paid Search Development at Microsoft⁴. He joined Microsoft in 2009 to create the Silicon Valley Search Ads team¹. In 2011, he moved to Bellevue, Washington, to lead the Bing Ads Development team before taking on his current role in 2015¹.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Boyd was the Vice President of Engineering at Mochi Media, an ads startup that was acquired by Shanda Games¹. He also worked for Yahoo for 10 years, most recently serving as Vice President of Platform Engineering⁴.

Boyd holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from MIT¹. His work focuses on the development of AI tools and the integration of this technology into various products¹. He is passionate about expanding people's creativity and democratizing AI¹.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2/26/2024

(1) Out of the Lab and Into a Product: Microsoft’s Eric Boyd. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/out-of-the-lab-and-into-a-product-microsofts-eric-boyd/.

(2) Eric Boyd - CVP AI Platform @ Microsoft - Crunchbase. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/eric-boyd.

(3) Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals. https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Eric%20D%20Boyd-4039696.

(4) Out of the Lab and Into a Product: Microsoft’s Eric Boyd. https://bing.com/search?q=Eric+Boyd+Microsoft+summary.

(5) undefined. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/aipodcast.

Copilot's Summary:

Microsoft and Mistral AI have announced a multi-year partnership to accelerate AI innovation¹². This partnership will enable Mistral AI to access Azure’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure, accelerating the development and deployment of their next-generation large language models (LLMs)¹. 

The partnership focuses on three core areas¹²:

1. Supercomputing infrastructure: Microsoft will support Mistral AI with Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure, delivering best-in-class performance and scale for AI training and inference workloads for Mistral AI’s flagship models¹.

2. Scale to market: Microsoft and Mistral AI will make Mistral AI’s premium models available to customers through the Models as a Service (MaaS) in the Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning model catalog¹. The ability to use Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) for purchasing Mistral AI’s models is available today¹.

3. AI research and development: Microsoft and Mistral AI will explore collaboration around training purpose-specific models for select customers, including European public sector workloads¹.

This partnership represents an opportunity for Mistral AI to unlock new commercial opportunities, expand to global markets, and foster ongoing research collaboration¹. Microsoft has also announced the availability of Mistral AI’s flagship commercial model, Mistral Large, first on Azure AI².

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2/26/2024

(1) Introducing Mistral-Large on Azure in partnership with Mistral AI .... https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure/.

(2) Microsoft Announces Multi-year Partnership with Mistral AI. https://www.maginative.com/article/microsoft-announces-multi-year-partnership-with-mistral-ai/.

(3) Microsoft and Mistral AI reveal partnership to help boost its AI large .... https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-reveal-partnership-to-help-boost-its-ai-large-language-models/.

(4) Microsoft and Mistral AI announce a new partnership to accelerate AI .... https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-a-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-model-first-on-azure/.

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