Microsoft Partners with French AI Startup Mistral as ChatGPT Rival
• Microsoft partners with French AI startup Mistral, whose models rival OpenAI's ChatGPT • Mistral releases new proprietary models - Mistral Large and Mistral Small - that outperform previous open-sourced models • Mistral's models will be available on Microsoft Azure, alongside OpenAI's models • Partnership seen as Microsoft hedging bets beyond OpenAI, their main AI partner until now • Mistral following similar path as OpenAI - releasing open-sourced models then closing off IP once monetizing