Subj : Databricks invests in Mistral, announces AI tie-up
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Mar 15 2024 13:15:06

Databricks invests in Mistral, announces AI tie-up

Date:
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:00:11 +0000

Description:
Buzzworthy French startup lands Databricks strategic partnership weeks after 
landing further big investment.

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Databricks has announced a new strategic partnership and investment in Mistal 
AI, one of the most intriguing generative AI start-ups around today. 

The pair say their collaboration will look to integrate Mistal AIs open 
models into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, offering customers 
enhanced accessibility and flexibility. 

The news comes shortly after Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith 
confirmed a multiyear partnership between the Redmond company and Mistral AI. 
Databricks and Mistral AI 

Mistrals models are now natively integrated within the Databricks platform, 
which means that customers will be able to browse and use them in the 
Databricks Marketplace. 

We are delighted to forge this strategic alliance with Databricks, 
reaffirming our shared commitment to the portability, openness and 
accessibility of generative artificial intelligence for all," noted Mistral 
AI CEO Arthur Mensch. 

Two flagship models were introduced as part of the collaboration: Mistral 7B 
and Mistral 8x7B. The former is a dense transformer model trained with 8k 
context length and seven billion parameters. 

Mistral 8x7B is a sparse mixture of experts model (SMoE) trained with a 
context length of 32k and 45 billion parameters. Its also capable of handling 
English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. 

The French startups models can be found on Databricks Marketplace, where they 
can be deployed with Mosaic AI Model Serving, batch inferenced with Spark, 
and model inferenced in SQL. 

Prem Prakash, Head of AI/ML Product Marketing at Databricks, added: Now, were 
offering a streamlined experience that will make it even easier for customers 
to natively access, customise, deploy and govern Mistral AI models for their 
generative AI applications. 

Precise details of the investment have been kept under wraps, but the fact 
that Mistral AI has already attracted attention from Microsoft, a company 
that has poured billions into OpenAI, is significant news. More from 
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