As part of this agreement, Mistral's artificial intelligence models will be available to users of Azure cloud services.
The companies will also work together to design and develop next-generation large language models.
In addition, Mistral announced a new artificial intelligence model called Mistral Large, which is intended to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4. Unlike other AI models from Mistral, Large will not be open-sourced.
At the same time, this agreement has already attracted interest from representatives of the European Commission. One of them said that regulators would analyze the investment after receiving a copy of the agreement.
Theoretically, this could lead to a new investigation, but for now, the Commission will only analyze the agreement.