Mistral AI strikes multibillion deal with Microsoft to build out Azure infrastructure in Europe

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft Corp. to expand its computing infrastructure in Europe and increase the availability of its top large language models in the U.S. In an announcement today, Microsoft said that Azure cloud customers will soon be able to develop software using Mistral’s data […]

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