Business
Microsoft struck a partnership with Mistral, a French startup working in artificial intelligence, that will help expand its services in cloud computing. Mistral was founded just a year ago by former researchers at Google and Meta. Its large language model is seen as rivalling GPT-4 in terms of reasoning. GPT-4 has been developed by OpenAI, in which Microsoft owns a 49% stake.
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