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• Microsoft has signed a multiyear agreement with startup Mistral to include GenAI models in Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning model catalog.

• Mistral-Large is a new LLM that introduces native fluency in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.

Microsoft has signed a multiyear agreement with GenAI startup Mistral, signaling the hyperscaler’s ambitions to branch out from its relationship with trailblazer OpenAI, based in San Francisco, California (US), and explore more diverse opportunities. The alliance makes Mistral the second company to provide commercial large language models (LLMs) on the Microsoft Azure platform. Microsoft has partnerships with Meta and Hugging Face, whose open-source models are also available on Microsoft Azure.

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