Mistral AI launched a new free tier to let developers fine-tune and build test apps with the startup's AI models, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. The startup also slashed prices for ...
French AI startup Mistral has released a slew of updates to its product portfolio as it looks to stay competitive in the cutthroat AI space. Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot platform can now search the web — ...
Mistral AI, a Paris-based artificial intelligence startup, today introduced two new AI large language models, Ministral 3B and 8B, designed for on-device and edge computing thanks to their small size.
Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they’re using don’t understand their business. The models are often trained on the internet, rather ...
Croatia's government on Friday said it would buy French air defence system Mistral for 72 million euros ($75.84 million) as part of the NATO member's efforts to modernise its air force.
France, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia and Hungary signed a letter of intent for the joint purchase of the French Mistral air defence systems, two sources aware of the matter said on Monday.
Chilean miner Codelco has requested an environmental permit to extend the life of its Gabriela Mistral copper mine by more than 25 years with an $800 million investment, the state-run company said on Monday.
Brussels’s Big Tech D-Day is here. On Thursday the European Union starts formally requiring so-called “gatekeeper” platforms run by the biggest technology giants to spur competition by complying with its Digital Markets Act (DMA). Yet Microsoft is a case study of how U.S. firms can still do business in Europe despite the regulatory surge.
Artificial intelligence Goliaths like OpenAI continue to open the door for what might become the industry’s Davids. The much smaller and more nascent firm Mistral AI is close to inking a $2 billion valuation from investors, Bloomberg reported on Monday, despite having negligible revenue and being under a year old. With a low-cost approach and data privacy focus, it may be able to eventually carve out a solid European business. For now, though, it’s capturing cash with a slingshot.
Canadian AI startup Cohere is expanding operations in Europe, intensifying competition with homegrown players like France's Mistral to supply AI services in the region.
Shipping giant CMA CGM and tech startup Mistral AI expect rapid productivity gains from a 100 million euro partnership unveiled on Sunday, which the French firms also touted as a commitment to their home country amid the global trade tensions.
Equinor and its partners have made a gas and condensate discovery in the Mistral South exploration well in the Halten area of the Norwegian Sea, and plan to develop the resources, the state-controlled company said on Wednesday.
Spanish AI firm Multiverse Computing said on Thursday it has raised 189 million euros ($217 million) from investment firm Bullhound Capital, HP Inc , Forgepoint Capital and Toshiba, to compress AI language models.
Cisco on Tuesday launched a $1 billion fund to invest in artificial intelligence startups, joining a list of big technology companies rushing to take stakes in small AI firms.
The European Union's landmark Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act may exempt open-source models from strict regulation, according to a leaked compromise proposal seen by Reuters.
Microsoft will likely sign the European Union's code of practice to help companies comply with the bloc's landmark artificial intelligence rules, its president told Reuters on Friday, while Meta Platforms rebuffed the guidelines.
France is helping Armenia to improve its air defence capacity with the sale of three radars and an agreement on the future delivery of Mistral anti-air missiles, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Monday.
France and Germany may have found a sweet spot amid the European Union’s artificial intelligence rules. As expected, the bloc will require general-purpose AI players to report how they use data, train their models and respect copyright laws, but there’s a twist. Technology deemed to pose a “systemic risk” – to be determined by how much computing power it uses – will face additional requirements in a move that looks handy for homegrown players like France’s Mistral and Germany’s Aleph Alpha.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced investment pledges to bolster France's artificial intelligence sector totalling 109 billion euros ($112 billion)over the coming years.
Paris has been named as the new European tech champion, beating London for the first time on some metrics, according to data from Dealroom, which collects information on startups and venture capital firms.
LightOn plans to expand in Europe and the Middle East, targeting sectors such as banking, defence and high-tech which require their data to be protected on local servers, the French company's co-CEO Laurent Daudet told Reuters.
Minority shareholders of Siemens Gamesa on Tuesday approved a capital reduction for the remaining 2.21% stake parent Siemens Energy does not already own, paving the way for a full integration of the Spanish-based wind turbine maker.
Britain's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it was seeking comments on the AI partnerships between Microsoft and Mistral AI, as well as between Amazon and Anthropic.