Summary
- French startup Mistral AI, likened to Open AI, has developed new reasoning models to rival those of its competitors.
- The models are able to display their full chain of thought to users in the user’s native language.
- The company has developed online reinforcement learning that allows AI models to continuously improve whilst generating responses.
- This training process is much faster and cheaper than traditional pre-training and is more environmentally friendly.
- Mistral AI has partnered with Nvidia to build an AI platform with 18,000 Nvidia’s latest Grace Blackwell chips.
- This will be housed initially in a French data centre with plans to expand across Europe.
- The platforms aim is to address the environmental impact and data sovereignty concerned with AI development.
- It will ensure that European customers can keep their information within European borders.
- The platform will also assess and reduce the carbon footprint of AI models throughout their life cycle.
- The partnership aims to increase Europe’s AI computing capacity tenfold over the next two years.
By Michael Nuñez
Original Article