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Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure
- Mistral AI, a French startup, expands into AI infrastructure in Europe to compete with AWS and Azure, unveiling new reasoning models.
- They launched Mistral Compute, an AI platform with Nvidia, offering an alternative to US-based cloud providers.
- Mistral unveiled Magistral reasoning models with step-by-step logic, in the user's own language, challenging competitors.
- The models, Magistral Small and Medium, showed unexpected abilities like multimodal reasoning and auto web searches.
- Mistral's breakthrough training infrastructure allows continuous model improvement, faster and cheaper than pre-training.
- The Mistral Compute platform will utilize Nvidia's Grace Blackwell chips, aiming at European technological independence.
- Mistral's partnership with Nvidia focuses on AI development, data sovereignty, and reducing the environmental impact of AI models.
- Mistral's move into AI infrastructure challenges cloud computing giants by offering a complete AI platform solution.
- The company aims to address regional AI development needs in Europe and reduce dependence on American technology companies.
- With backing from Microsoft and a raised $1 billion fund, Mistral's ambition is to become a comprehensive AI platform.
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