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

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